The Federal Reserve should not be deterred from raising interest rates to battle high inflation because of the potential for financial instability, a top official at the US central bank has said.
Thomas Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, said that while policymakers should always be “sensitive” to financial stability, those concerns should not take precedence over the central bank’s fight against persistent inflation.
“If inflation persists, or God forbid…
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