U.S. President Donald Trump’s fresh tariff announcements make it “messy” to interpret the state of the economy, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee said, adding that he is hearing a lot of anxiety from business contacts about coming inflation that is not yet obvious in the data.
“I’ve got to wait until that noise kind of dies down, that anxiety dies down, before I’m gonna be comfortable that we are back on the old golden path, as I called it, to a stable soft landing,” Goolsbee said in a “Moody’s Talks: Inside Economics” podcast taped on Thursday and released on Friday. “If we, every six weeks, have to revisit whether we’re about to have some big supply shock, that’s messy at the least.” (Reporting by Ann Saphir; Editing by Leslie Adler)
