>> Mark. Mark. Thank you.>> Chairman Powell. Mark Hamrick with bank rate. What is the view about the growing amount of slack in the job market, including the softening in payrolls, the forecast of a modest rise in the unemployment rate and the ability of workers to demand wage hikes or not.In this environment where you have inflation surging. >> I don't you don't see you don't really see unemployment going up. You don't see increased slack, really.I mean, at the margin, remember you're at 4.2% unemployment. ...

Joining us now to talk about it all, Loretta Mester, former Cleveland Fed president, now adjunct professor of finance at the University of Wharton, also a CNBC contra contributor. And we are darn glad that you are here, Loretta. If you were still on the Fed, what would your decision and expectation for rate cuts be? Yeah, I would have probably already been at one cut as opposed to two. So I may not have changed my SEP. Remember the SEP, the one that we had before was in March and that was before the April 2 ...

As of June 2025, the US economy continues to defy some expectations as the labor market shows some strength even with inflation moderating. The latest jobs report on June 6th showed non-farm payrolls grew by 139,000 in May. This surpassed the forecast of 125,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%.Meanwhile, the most recent CPI report on the 11th showed inflation below expectations at 2.4% year-over-year in May with core steady at 2.8%. Earlier worries that tariffs was going to at the same ...

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