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Jason Furman on the Fed, Inflation, & the Outlook for the U.S. Economy

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Jason Furman is the former top economic advisor to President Obama and he's now teaching at Harvard. The Fed has been pushing up interest rates Jason really quickly 500 basis points over 16 months they're trying to get a sense of when they've done enough What's your view on how on that question? Yeah, so Greg it might be that we're on track for soft landing and they've already done enough If that's the case, it's you know where the momentum of the economy already is And I don't see another wave of contraction coming unless the Fed surprises us with more interest rate increases above and beyond what everyone's expecting.

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