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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Powell: 'No guarantee' Fed can tame inflation, spare jobs

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there's “no guarantee'' the central bank can tame runaway inflation without hurting the job market.

Speaking Wednesday at a European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal, Powell repeated his hope that the Fed can achieve a so-called soft landing — raising interest rates just enough to slow the economy and rein in surging consumer prices without causing a recession and sharply raising the unemployment rate.

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