Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida conceded Monday that inflation is running well above a level that the central bank considers desirable, and if that continues it would signal a policy error.
Though Clarida still subscribes to the broader description of current price pressures as «transitory,» he said they are more intense than expected and will be higher this year than the Fed's most recent forecast.
«Realized inflation so far this year represents to me much more than a moderate overshoot of our 2% longer-run goal, and I would certainly not consider a repeat performance a policy success,» he said during a virtual conference presented by the Brookings Institution.
The remarks come a week after the Fed indicated that it would
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