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Powell: Fed hikes will likely boost unemployment
The Hill ^ | 09/21/2022 | Sylvan Lane

Posted on 09/21/2022 2:03:28 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday he expects the U.S. economy to slow under the weight of the central bank’s interest rate hikes to a point that could cause job losses.

Speaking after the Fed issued another rate hike, Powell said the U.S. may be able to avert a full-blown recession but could not avoid hardship as the bank ramps up its fight against inflation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fed; hikes; powell; unemployment
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He sounds excited. What a putz.
1 posted on 09/21/2022 2:03:28 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Considering these jokers have been wrong about everything, I wouldn’t be surprised if unemployment fell.


2 posted on 09/21/2022 2:05:24 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People will soon need to go back to work. Employers will benefit from JPowell’s course of action.


3 posted on 09/21/2022 2:09:31 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And the jobless idiots will continue to vote Democrat because CNN and MSNBC tells them to.

Out of work?

Vote pro abortion!

Vote pro transgender!

Vote Global Warming!

You can find bugs to eat with your $8 Beyond Meat burger.

Oh, you don’t have $8?

Vote more foreign labor!


4 posted on 09/21/2022 2:10:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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(He sounds excited.)

There’s great joy in the Great Reset. Apparently.

Unless one is part of the starving masses, that is.


5 posted on 09/21/2022 2:13:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Unemployment rates mean nothing. They are hocus pocus. Job participation is what needs to be looked at. It went from 66.2 % to 62% in ten years. A 4% drop is millions of people not even looking for jobs anymore.


6 posted on 09/21/2022 2:13:38 PM PDT by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden’s puppet masters have taken a wrecking ball to the economy. If they retain power in 2024, I’m afraid it’s lights-out on any hope of economic recovery.


7 posted on 09/21/2022 2:13:47 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Likely” to boost unemployment? It is a sure-fire bet. There is NO way to dodge that bullet. No business enterprise can expand legally in this environment. However, lots of illegal shortcuts are coming, along with a whole new slew of regulations, which will be enforced in a highly selective manner.

The Powers that Be will get to select winners and losers with even less oversight and more simple graft.

None Dare Call It Treason - Barry Goldwater, 1963.


8 posted on 09/21/2022 2:16:48 PM PDT by alloysteel (A born skeptic is now living in a target-rich environment. SO many beliefs to challenge...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When is the last time the MSM referred to the “Burger flipper” jobs.


9 posted on 09/21/2022 2:18:29 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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People will soon need to go back to work.

Serious quuestion. What have the formerly employed been doing for the past 1-2 years? I can't figure it out.

10 posted on 09/21/2022 2:20:03 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Spanish-habla-ing roofers hit the hardest.


11 posted on 09/21/2022 2:22:32 PM PDT by moovova
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Now it’s going to cost more to pay off the trillions Biden blew.


12 posted on 09/21/2022 2:41:46 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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Numbers are skewed because of people now work cash jobs under the table and hustle, because of taxes, etc. America saved like crazy over the pandemic. Numbers imply that lots of people died via covid, vaccines, and other issues relating to lock downs. That is the 'missing' people.
13 posted on 09/21/2022 2:56:08 PM PDT by Theoria
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It’s interesting that the employment conditions are changing. Employers are finding it easier to find workers now in many industries and wages increases are slowing.

It’s almost like something is working as hoped.


14 posted on 09/21/2022 2:56:11 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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“People will soon need to go back to work. Employers will benefit from JPowell’s course of action.”

No offense...but, are you insane? If he actually wanted to do his job, and maintain the dollar, he would have taken action shortly after “Sleepy” took office, and decimated our energy sector. Employers, when they can find employees willing to show up, are saddled with extraordinary increases in their input costs, more regulation, and horseshit increases in the minimum wage to “level the playing field” which does nothing but destroy the bottom line for the small, to medium sized business owner that can’t afford to take the hit, and ultimately lays people off, or closes his, or her doors. The bullshit of this “bottom up, middle out” financial plan has to stop.


15 posted on 09/21/2022 3:04:10 PM PDT by Salty Longshanks
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“Now it’s going to cost more to pay off the trillions Biden blew.”

That’s true but Biden’s new debt is a small amount of the total being paid. This is what financial experts have warned politicians about for years. Hard to grow an economy if too much money is tied up in paying govt debt. Unless you increase the money supply, ho-ho. Why, it’s like a Catch-22.


16 posted on 09/21/2022 3:11:20 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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'decimated our energy sector.'

Nobody is more bullish on oil and gas than Joe Biden. Employers will get back the advantage they had in the past, now that people will go back to work in a crappy economy. The markets in general perform better when unemployment is 5-8%.

17 posted on 09/21/2022 3:11:36 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Salty Longshanks

See my #14. Most of the media is behind. Hiring conditions have improved in many unrelated industries from food to factories to techies, etc.

Also wage increases have slowed due to the above.


18 posted on 09/21/2022 3:13:52 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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“Nobody is more bullish on oil and gas than Joe Biden”

Damn!...Thank you for making it abundantly clear that in the future, all your posts/comments should, and will be ignored.
Enjoy your evening. ;)


19 posted on 09/21/2022 3:19:33 PM PDT by Salty Longshanks
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To: Theoria

“Employers will get back the advantage they had in the past, now that people will go back to work in a crappy economy.”

I agree, and employer reports show it’s already started. Clubbing, trips and hanging around the house is all fun and games until the money runs out.


20 posted on 09/21/2022 3:23:31 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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