Fed's Miran: Growth in the 1st half of the year was slower than expected amid uncertainty
Fed's Miran is speaking and says:
- Growth in the 1st half of the year was slower than expected amid uncertainty.
- A lot of uncertainty on economy has lifted.
- There are reasons to be more optimistic going forward on uncertainty lifting.
- If economy does well it doesn't have firm implications for monetary policy.
- Restrictive monetary policy has risks.
- There are risks if monetary policy is an adjusted.
- Monetary policy should be forward-looking giving lags on policy impact.
- Is more sanguine on inflation than others.