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Chicago Fed president on the economy’s mixed signals

Inflation is showing fresh signs of cooling, ticking up 2.7% year-over-year, lower than many economists had expected. It follows the release of a delayed jobs report that showed weak growth and the ... Read More

Chicago Fed's Goolsbee: Waiting for more economic data before lowering rates would have been prudent

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said on Friday that a more prudent course would have been to wait for more data before lowering rates further. As widely expected, the FOMC reduced ... Read More

Goolsbee appears on CNBC amid rate debate

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Fed's Goolsbee says rates ‘could come down’ if economy stays on ‘golden path’

The Fed's Austan Goolsbee signaled more rate cuts are possible if inflation trends continue improving, calling November's CPI data encouraging for policymakers. Read More

Austan Goolsbee Signals Potential for More Fed Rate Cuts as Inflation Shows Improvement

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said Thursday that recent inflation data has been encouraging, raising the possibility of additional interest rate cuts next year if current ... Read More

Chicago Fed’s Goolsbee joins ranks of dissenters

Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee voted against the December rate cut, joining Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid. In the weeks before the meeting, Goolsbee said he was hesitant to cut rates ... Read More

Fed's Goolsbee Says He Sees More Cuts Than Most Others Next Year

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said he is projecting more interest-rate cuts for 2026 than many of his colleagues, but dissented against a rate cut this week because he ... Read More

‘Inflation remains too high.’ Two Fed dissenters who rejected latest interest-rate cut explain why.

Two top Federal Reserve officials who voted against cutting U.S. interest rates this week said inflation remains too high and the central bank should have waited for more evidence that price increases ... Read More

Chicago Fed's Goolsbee says inflation 'not great', labor is generally stable

"The inflation rate has not been great," Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on Friday at the bank's Annual Economic Outlook Symposium. While he doesn't consider himself to be a "hawk," he ... Read More

Chicago Fed's Goolsbee: Waiting for more economic data before lowering rates would have been prudent

Article was revised at 9.50 AM ET to include additional comments by Austan Goolsbee on the recently announced $40B purchases in Treasury bills. Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said ... Read More