Economics
Fed Risks Stoking Financial Bubble in Drive to Lift Inflation
- Chicago Fed financial conditions index easiest since 1994
- Powell calls low inflation a major challenge ‘of our time’
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The Federal Reserve risks stoking the same sort of asset bubbles that Chairman Jerome Powell has linked to the last two recessions with its new-found eagerness to fan inflation.