WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell isn’t as pleased with the robust U.S. job market as you might think he’d be, and he and the Federal Reserve plan to do something about it: Take it down a notch.
On Thursday, Powell described the job market as “extremely, historically” tight and “unsustainably hot.”
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