Might have to remain affected person on coverage till summer time

(Reuters) – Atlanta Federal Reserve Financial institution President Raphael Bostic on Thursday mentioned new insurance policies below the Trump administration are placing the U.S. economic system into “unimaginable flux,” making it unlikely that the Fed can have sufficient readability to maneuver on coverage earlier than late spring or summer time.

“There’s loads of transition that is occurring, and within the midst of this transition it is onerous to know precisely the place issues are going to land,” Bostic mentioned at an occasion hosted by the Birmingham Enterprise Journal. He ticked off a listing that included tariffs, commerce coverage, unpredictable bounces in inflation, shopper sentiment that’s turning adverse, immigration coverage and its affect on the labor pressure, vitality coverage, tax coverage, federal spending and geopolitics.

“I would be shocked if we received loads of readability earlier than the late spring or into the summer time,” he mentioned. “We’ll have to simply kind of actually be affected person.”

(Reporting by Ann Saphir; Modifying by Leslie Adler)