00:00Y tras el anuncio, el presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, salió a explicar la decisión.
00:07Powell dijo que la Fed está enfocada en controlar la inflación, no en los préstamos gubernamentales o los costos de las hipotecas de vivienda que Trump quiere reducir.
00:19También agregó que existen riesgos por crecientes presiones sobre los precios debido a las políticas comerciales y de otro tipo de administración como los aranceles.
00:28Por lo que es demasiado temprano para que el Banco Central comience a aflojar su control.
00:58We're holding it back inappropriately.
01:01So it seems to me and to almost the whole committee that the economy is not performing as a restrictive policy.
01:09It's holding it back inappropriately and modestly restrictive policy seems appropriate.
01:14And, you know, I think at this point people's estimates, our estimates, outside estimates of the likely, you know, effective level of tariffs is not moving around that much at this point.
01:29But at the same time there are many uncertainties left to resolve and not political factors.
01:33And so governments all over the advanced economy world have chosen to put a little bit of distance between direct political control of those decisions and the decision makers.
01:45So if you were not to have that, there would be a great temptation, of course, to use interest rates to affect elections, for example.
01:55And that's something that we we don't want to do.
01:58So.
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