Fed's Schmid: There's been a normalization, not a deteriation, of the labor market
|Federal Reserve (Fed) Bank of Kansas President Jeffrey Schmid hit newswires late Monday, noting that recent downturns in US data is more likely a normalization of US labor markets after a period of record over-employment and untenably low unemployment rates, rather than an outright deterioration in the overall US labor market.
Key highlights
Schmid urges careful, steady, and purposeful method for reducing interest rates.
Rates to settle significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels.
Fed must prevent significant fluctuations in interest rates.
"Reasonably confident" that inflation is heading in the right direction.
Data to determine rate policy.
Sees a normalization of labor market, not deterioration.
Would prefer to avoid outsized rate cuts, supports measured and gradual strategy for policy
.Favors shorter duration and smaller balance sheet, and prefers a relatively aggressive approach to balance sheet reduction.
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