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“Now, for me, the focus is really on the service sector and the inflationary pressures that we continue to see there,” she said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.
“It looks like we’ll have to be a bit more patient to see if we’re on track and if we’ll make it convincingly towards that 2% target,” she added, referring to the inflation target. in the medium term by 2% of the American central bank.
According to Esther George, who will leave office on January 31, labor shortages might represent “severe constraints” to a sustained decline in inflation.
(Report Lindsay Dunsmuir; French version Claude Chendjou, edited by Blandine Hénault)
