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Jay Powell says US needs to cut deficit ‘sooner rather than later’

Fed chief warns against running at high levels while output in world’s largest economy is strong
ECB president Christine Lagarde, second left, and Fed chair Jay Powell, second right, at the ECB’s conference in Sintra, Portugal. Powell said ‘the level of debt we have is completely sustainable but the path we are on is unsustainable’

The head of the Federal Reserve has warned the US economy is too strong to justify running such high deficits and urged Washington to address its fiscal imbalance “sooner rather than later”, in a sign of monetary policymakers’ rising concern about rampant government spending.

Jay Powell warned that the Biden administration was taking excessive risks by “running a very large deficit at a time when we are at full employment” and said “you can’t run these levels in good economic times for very long”.

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