Speech by Governor Waller on the economic outlook

Thank you, Constance, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.1 Let me commend NABE for focusing this year's conference on economic disruptions including artificial intelligence, a subject I have spoken on often lately, and which I will address again tomorrow at a Boston Fed conference. But today, I will turn to another topic that I know is of interest, the outlook for the U.S. economy and the implications for the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) goals of maximum employment and stable prices. At our January meeting, the FOMC voted to hold our policy rate steady, following three 25-basis-point ... (