The lone Federal Reserve official to vote against the central bank’s decision Wednesday to raise interest rates explained his dissent Friday, arguing that inflation and employment are still too low.
Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, wrote that “we are still coming up short on our inflation target,” and that the ongoing job growth shows that there are still gains to be made before monetary policy is tightened.
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