Powell: Fed still hasn’t reached goal for inflation

Published July 12, 2018 6:51pm ET



The Federal Reserve still hasn’t achieved its goal of raising inflation, Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday, even though price gains have been right near the central bank’s 2 percent target in recent months.

“We’re not declaring victory there,” Powell said in an interview with the publication Marketplace. “We want inflation to be symmetrically around 2 percent, so just kind of reaching up and touching it once doesn’t fulfill that goal.”

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