Chicago Fed head Goolsbee says ‘too early to declare victory’ on economic ‘soft landing’

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee spoke in an interview on US TV on Sunday, CBS’s “Face the Nation”. It was a soft sort of piece for a wide audience and Goolsbee didn’t drop anything unexpected or controversial:

  • “We still get one more month of data, but 2023 looks like it’s going to end up being a very substantial reduction in inflation without a big increase in the unemployment rate, that’s the golden path that I talked about, but we’re still above the target,”
  • “We gotta get inflation down to target before it … until we are convinced that we’re on path to that … it’s an overstatement to, to be counting the chickens.”

Of concern are:

  • there are still numerous “concerning data points” that may I’mpact the “landing
  • “You see delinquencies going up on for both credit card debt, auto lending and small business lending”

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com. Source