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Policymakers can no longer afford to look through supply shocks that have become a regular feature of the economy, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said Monday. Lately, supply shocks such as wars and tariffs have occurred more frequently and lasted longer than they used to in the past,
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Goolsbee said the Fed may not respond as aggressively to a supply-driven imbalance as it would to demand overheating. ・He said that if persistent shocks repeatedly push inflation higher, the central bank still has to restore price stability under its legal mandate,
"We seem to have entered a period where large supply shocks — from wars, tariffs, weather, supply chain disruptions, oil shocks, and so on — have become a regular feature of the economy," Goolsbee said in a speech at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum Event in London,
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