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"By stable prices, I mean, you don’t want high inflation, you don’t want deflation, you don’t want highly variable inflation, right? Right. You want be able to predict what prices are going do over the next few months, over the next year. That’s what we [the Fed] mean by stable prices."

Sonya Ravindranath Waddell
Vice President and Economist

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72%

of respondents to our May Surveys of Business Activity have made business changes in response to tariffs on imports

Ashley Smoral

“I fell in love with the Fed when I realized just how much opportunity there was.”

- Ashley, Human Resources