Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during a Fed Listens event in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022.
Federal Reserve officials this week gave their clearest signal yet that they're willing to tolerate a recession as the necessary trade-off for regaining control of inflation.
That's monetary policy in this era of rapid inflation, swooning economic growth and heightened fears over what could go wrong.
"But I would argue that they're still being overly optimistic at which the inflation rate is going to decelerate on its own."
"Right now, the pain that I hear, the suffering that people are telling me what they're going through, is on the inflation side," she said during a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations.