→ Fed's 2% inflation target is “firm and fixed.”

→ Inflation is still too high, with PCE at 3.7% over the past year.

→ 54% of goods and services in the PCE basket are still seeing prices rise by more than 3%.

→ Better-than-recent inflation data is NOT convincing him that the underlying trend has improved.

→ The economy is still strong and the labor market is nearly at full employment.

→ Financial conditions are NOT restrictive despite current interest rates.

→ S&P 500 earnings have surged by more than 20% over the past year.

→ More than half of this year’s business investment growth is tied to building AI.

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