A top Federal Reserve official has warned it is a “fantasy” to think the US central bank can bring inflation down sufficiently without raising interest rates to a level where they constrain the economy.
James Bullard, president of the St Louis branch of the Fed, said the central bank needed to be more aggressive in its efforts to root out the highest inflation in four decades as he called for rates to rise to a point where they actively curtail growth.
The comments from Bullard, a voting member of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee and one of its foremost hawks, run counter to other officials, who are broadly aligned on the need to push rates closer to a “neutral” level this year.
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