MNI BRIEF: Fed's Bostic Expects No Recession As Economy Slows

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic on Tuesday reaffirmed his view that the Fed's benchmark interest rate is high enough to get inflation under control without dragging the economy into recession.

"Our policy rate is sufficiently restrictive position to get inflation down to 2%. We have clearly moved into a restrictive place, the economy is clearly slowing down, and a lot of our policy impact has yet to come," he told the American Bankers Association's annual convention.

In his quarterly forecasts last month, "Ihavetheeconomyslowingdown,butnotmovingintoarecessionarymodebecausethere'salotofmomentumthatwaspresent.AndIthinkthatisgoingtobeabletostopalotof the slowdown." The outbreak of war in the Middle East adds to the list of unanticipated events of recent years and underscores that officials need to be nimble and ready to adapt, he said.

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