
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming: Taming high US inflation will inflict “pain” on American families and businesses, but failure to wrestle prices down from their current 40-year high would be even more harmful, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday in a highly anticipated speech to global policymakers.
Addressing the annual gathering of central bankers in the mountain resort town of Jackson Hole, Powell did not hold back or leave room for doubt about the central bank’s course, pledging to act “forcefully”.