11 October 2019
Minneapolis Fed president Kashkari: Monetary policy is not the right tool to respond to a trade war, but it is the only tool that we have
- There is more slack in the labour market
- Wage growth is still tepid
- Not the time to tap the brakes on the economy
- Extended trade war could lower neutral rate further
- We can't model the shock a trade war will have on psychology and how it is going to ripple through to the economy