"My baseline is that we should stay at this level for the rest of the year," and not cut rates until the latter half of 2024, Bostic said in an interview on Yahoo Finance.
"Letting restrictive policy work for a while is prudent because the policy has been truly restrictive for less than a year, and it takes time for monetary policy changes to meaningfully influence economic activity.
Bostic is the first official to say explicitly that may be too soon.
Therefore, the real economic effects of tighter monetary policy are only just beginning to take hold," Bostic said.
The risk of waiting is that inflation may resurge, but "that is not my baseline."
Persons:
Raphael Bostic, Bostic, Howard Schneider, Andrea Ricci
Organizations:
Atlanta Federal Reserve, Yahoo Finance, Fed, Thomson
Locations:
U.S, Atlanta