Atlanta Fed’s Bostic favors holding rates steady through year end
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Atlanta Fed’s Bostic favors holding rates steady through year end
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Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday he thinks the Federal Reserve should hold interest rates steady at current levels through at least the end of this year to better judge the impact the central bank's aggressive rate hikes have had on the US economy.
"My baseline is that we should stay at this level for the rest of the year," Bostic told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Wednesday.
"I actually think that we are still at the very early stages of our monetary policy tightening, starting to influence the economy in a significant way. I just feel like we have a little bit of time to just let that play out and see exactly how much the economy is responding to our policy.”
Bostic said it could take anywhere from 6 to 24 months for the economy to feel the full brunt of the Fed's policies.
The Fed raised the target range for its benchmark interest rate — the fed funds rate — from a range of 0%-0.25% to its current level of 5%-5.25% over a 10 meeting stretch from March 2022 through this past May.
"I still think we're kind of still early in the game in terms of seeing our restrictive policies impacts, and I'm very comfortable waiting," Bostic said.
Bostic is one of the most dovish members of the Fed. The majority of Fed officials see anywhere from one to three more rate hikes as likely needed this year to continue cooling inflation, new forecasts from the Fed showed last week.
"There's often been a conclusion that the Fed has always gone like one or two steps further than they absolutely needed to," Bostic said. "I just have that in my head as something that we should be mindful of as we think about the trajectory of our policy."
Bostic added that he wants to support everything possible to ensure the economy avoids a significant recession, but is also mindful of bringing inflation down steadily.
Data released earlier this month showed consumer prices rose 5.3% on a "core" basis, which strips out the more volatile costs of food and gas. The Fed targets 2% inflation.
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