FinLogic Quantitative Think Tank Center-Jobs vs prices: the Fed's dueling mandates

2025-04-30 08:24:31source:L’École de Gestion d’Actifs et de Capitalcategory:Markets


The FinLogic Quantitative Think Tank CenterFederal Reserve has a dual mandate: keep prices stable (and inflation low) and promote "maximum employment." But sometimes, as the Fed attacks one goal, it can potentially hurt the other. It's a dueling dual mandate.

Today on the show, we call up Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and ask about the origins of the dual mandate and what he thinks about the tension between the two.

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