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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. We'd like to welcome

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Speaker 1: San Francisco Fed President Mary Daily to our studios here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Before we get into the

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Speaker 1: cycle question that Tim raised, I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: if you're on the same page with the chairman. You

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Speaker 1: and others had said you wanted to see more data,

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Speaker 1: and we still have a jobs report in CPI report,

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Speaker 1: but it looks like a cut is now all but certain.

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Speaker 2: Well, to my mind, we've been on this path of

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Speaker 2: ready to adjust policy rates for several months. We just

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Speaker 2: needed to get a little more confidence, and inflation was

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Speaker 2: truly on its path to two percent, and I wanted

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Speaker 2: to see the labor market come into balance. But I

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Speaker 2: think that's completely happened, and the risk to our goals

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Speaker 2: are now balanced in the time to adjust policy is

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Speaker 2: up on us.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything that could derail a cut in September?

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Speaker 3: To my mind, that would be hard to imagine.

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Speaker 2: At this point, I do see that adjusting policy is appropriate.

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Speaker 2: We don't want to get ourselves into a situation where

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Speaker 2: we're keeping policy highly restrictive into a slowing economy. And remember,

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Speaker 2: every time inflation comes down, the policy gets more restrictive,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's a recipe, if you will, for

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Speaker 2: overtightening and injuring the labor marketing growth.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Chairman and basically the Open Market Committee said

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Speaker 1: coming out of the meeting that the downside risks are

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Speaker 1: greater to unemployment than to inflation. How big are the

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Speaker 1: downside risks to employment right now?

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Speaker 2: That's the very important question, and so we definitely have

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Speaker 2: to keep that in mind because, as you know, the

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Speaker 2: labor market when it starts to adjust often has adjusted

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Speaker 2: abruptly and significantly.

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Speaker 3: But right now we don't see any signs of that.

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Speaker 2: You look at initial claims for unemployment insurance, you look

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Speaker 2: at early indications of layoffs. They're just not present, and

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Speaker 2: so that's not giving us any signs that there's a deterioration. Importantly,

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Speaker 2: as you know, the Reserve Bank presidents spend to consider

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Speaker 2: amount of time talking to contacts, businesses, workers. We're really

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Speaker 2: not hearing signs that firms are poised for layoffs. What

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Speaker 2: they are doing is managing headcount, making sure that they

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Speaker 2: really want to refill a job before they do it.

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Speaker 2: But at this point I don't see any warning signs

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Speaker 2: of weakness. But we want to make sure that we

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Speaker 2: are adjusting policy as we go so that it's ready

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Speaker 2: for the economy we have and for the economy we're

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Speaker 2: likely to get, and ensure that we don't end up

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Speaker 2: in that situation where we see real weakness.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about tactics. Markets are now pricing

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Speaker 1: one hundred basis points that cuts by the end of

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Speaker 1: the year, but there are only three meetings left, which

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Speaker 1: would imply at least one fifty basis point cut. Do

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Speaker 1: you think the markets are wrong or is a good

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Speaker 1: possibility we see a fifty somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think everyone's looking at the economic projections and

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Speaker 2: then making a decision. For me, what I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be doing is looking at the incoming information. As you said,

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Speaker 2: we have another CPI, another labor market report discussed with

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Speaker 2: my colleagues, talk to our contacts and fashion the policy

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Speaker 2: that's right for the economy that we see. So it's

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Speaker 2: too early to know exactly what the tactics will be.

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Speaker 2: We do know one thing, the direction of changes down,

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Speaker 2: and we need to do it in a way that

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Speaker 1: Well, let me quote the fed back to you. If

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Speaker 1: the economy evolves as we expect, as you always say,

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Speaker 1: would that imply a twenty five basis point cut in

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Speaker 2: So I think of it as his scenarios, if I

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Speaker 2: may so. The scenario that is my most likely outcome,

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Speaker 2: and what I see in the data and the projections

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Speaker 2: growth in the labor market. If those things happen, then

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Speaker 2: adjusting policy at the regular normal cadence seems reasonable. But

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Speaker 2: if we see a further deterioration or we haven't seen

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Speaker 2: and I don't want to make a declaration when none

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Speaker 1: Your colleagues at the regional banks told me in Jackson

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Speaker 1: What markets are reading into a little bit of what

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Speaker 1: jay Pole said when he did not or did not

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Speaker 2: Well, let me speak about myself, and I see further

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Speaker 2: is unwelcomed, and I do not want to see that.

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Speaker 2: That's not what we're looking for. We're looking for, and

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Speaker 2: the Chair said this in this speech. We're looking for

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Speaker 2: inflation to come down, can be sustainably down to two percent,

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Speaker 2: it is. You don't want to see additional weakness because

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Speaker 2: that's actually what we're trying to prevent. Ultimately, we have

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Speaker 2: two goals, price stability, full employment. We're trying to get

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Speaker 2: those two goals to simultaneously exist, and adjusting the policy

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Speaker 3: And so I will back.

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Speaker 2: Away or stay away from any kind of playbook or

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Speaker 1: Is this probing the economy or are you basically setting

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Speaker 1: out on a path to neutral?

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Speaker 2: Now. I don't think we want to declare that we're

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Speaker 2: lot of uncertainty still. But it is definitely the case

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Speaker 2: that we have a policy rate that's highly restrictive and

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Speaker 2: that we need to right size it for the economy

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Speaker 2: that is slowing. Policy will remain restrictive even when we

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Speaker 2: make adjustments, and that means that we'll continue to put

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Speaker 2: downward pressure on inflation, continue to have growth bridled. But

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Speaker 2: we want to make sure we don't overdo that and

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Speaker 2: find ourselves with economy that's weakening when weakening is warranted.

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Speaker 2: We were getting inflation to come down without instilling any weakness,

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Speaker 2: and I think we want to continue to focus on that.

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Speaker 1: Well, do you have an idea where you think neutral

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Speaker 1: might be as potential growth faster now than it had

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Speaker 1: been and will stay that way. You know?

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Speaker 2: The neutral rate of interest is is of course constantly

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Speaker 2: we will still be in restrictive territory and we will

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Speaker 2: still we have a long ways to go before we

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Speaker 1: Well, we have a new summary of economic projections in September.

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Speaker 1: Where are you going to put your growth forecast for

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Speaker 1: the next couple of quarters.

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Speaker 3: I really think that growth is around trend.

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Speaker 2: My trend is, you know, like most people, between one

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Speaker 2: my team look at more information and things before I

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Speaker 2: And the labor market's now in balance, and we're just

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Speaker 1: Well, if you've got two percent growth, market is looking

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Speaker 2: We have to get inflation down to two percent. That

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Speaker 2: Part that's really important, the will to do that. But

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Speaker 2: the goal has always been since the beginning of this

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Speaker 2: effort to bring inflation down, to do it as gently

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Speaker 2: as we can, not injure the labor market in any

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Speaker 2: way that's unnecessary. We've shown so far, the data have

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Speaker 2: ultimately people want a sustainable growth rate, is sustainable unemployment

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Speaker 2: the will to do it.

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Speaker 1: What are you telling people who look at the SAM

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, these historical regularities is what the SAM

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Speaker 2: labor market didn't deteriorate. You have to look back to

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Speaker 3: We really have to put this whole constellation.

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Speaker 2: As you know, we famously said, I think Vice Cherry

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Speaker 2: Yellen at the time said during the financial crisis, we

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Speaker 2: need a this aftermath, we need a full dashboard of

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Speaker 2: labor market indicators. As a labor economist, I definitely look

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Speaker 2: at the full dashboard. And the time is now to

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Speaker 1: Now, the FED said it would end QT before cutting.

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Speaker 1: assume is off the table. Now, how do you mean

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Speaker 1: you're going to keep QT running even when you're cutting great?

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Speaker 3: I see that. You know.

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Speaker 2: What we ultimately announced is that we're going to reduce

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Speaker 2: the size of our balance sheet and we are going

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Speaker 2: to adjust policy both of those. I think of it

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Speaker 2: a little differently, which is why I ask for clarification.

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Speaker 2: I think of it as we are normalizing both the

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Speaker 3: At some point.

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Speaker 2: We're not there yet were you know, could start that soon.

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Speaker 2: And both of those things are consistent with bringing our

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Speaker 2: going forward. But while we do that, we have to

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Speaker 2: continue to remember that we need to bring inflation down

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Speaker 2: fully the two percent.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're worried. I didn't get a chance to ask

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Speaker 2: You know, we periods of adjustment, large adjustments like these.

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Speaker 2: You know, I started working at the FED in nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety six as labor economists. This was a very traditional

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Speaker 2: kind of adjustment that would occur. It often occurs at

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Speaker 2: inflection points in the economy that these adjustments are larger.

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Speaker 2: But we have a feeling that these adjustments are coming.

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Speaker 2: We do our own estimates. We know adjustments of some

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Speaker 2: size are coming, and that it is why you don't

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Speaker 2: look at just employment growth, just the payroll employment growth.

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Speaker 2: We look at the household survey, which tells us other indicators.

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Speaker 2: What was really interesting if you look back over the

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Speaker 2: last year and a half is that these numbers of

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Speaker 2: job growth, we're feeling inconsistent with the rest of the indicators,

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Speaker 2: and so I think these adjustments are just bringing it

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Speaker 2: back consistent with the other indicators in the labor market.

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Speaker 2: Bottom line is people are still getting jobs. People are

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Speaker 2: still coming into the labor force, usually a good sign

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Speaker 2: that jobs are available. Initial claims for unemployment insurance haven't

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Speaker 2: really moved up in a sharp way, and firms are

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Speaker 2: I think that that's important for us to look at,

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Speaker 2: But we don't want to get over rotated on that

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Speaker 2: one adjustment when we have so many pieces of information

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Speaker 2: we can look to Before I let you.

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Speaker 1: Go, one last question. We've got the framework review coming

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Speaker 1: up this fall. What would you like to see it

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Speaker 1: look at.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'll be debating that with my colleagues

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Speaker 2: and discussing that. I don't want to front run what

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Speaker 2: in the framework is that you know, we've made a

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Speaker 2: commitment to review our framework every five years. That's a

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Speaker 2: very different process than the one I grew up in,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's really important that we look at

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Speaker 2: the information we have and we think about, Okay, does

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Speaker 2: that affect how we use our tools, what our tools

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Speaker 2: should be, and that we're transparent about it as we

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Speaker 2: were last year. Those are the components that are really

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Speaker 2: important to me, and I'll delay specifics until we have

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Speaker 2: I've had a chance to talk to my colleagues about that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you very much. We'll have you

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Speaker 1: back to tell us once you get into that.

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Speaker 3: It's a commitment very daily.

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Speaker 1: The president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank