Patrick Harker, Interview: OMFIF Institute for Economic and Monetary Policy

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 “I am in a camp increasingly coming into this meeting of thinking that we really should skip, not pause … we’ve got to get to a point where we believe policy is restrictive and I think we’re close if not at that point right now.”

The data due on Friday about the U.S. job market “may change my mind.”

“I think we have to be ready that we might have to do more and I’m fully aware we have to do that and willing to do that, but I want to give it a little bit of time.”