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US Federal Reserve Chairman says Economy Needs Help Despite Covid Vaccine News

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US Federal Reserve Chairman says Economy Needs Help Despite Covid Vaccine News

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US Federal Reserve Chairman says Economy Needs Help Despite Covid Vaccine News

Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. The U.S. Federal Reserve delivered an emergency half-percentage point interest rate cut today in a bid to protect the longest-ever economic expansion from the spreading coronavirus. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the economy continues to need help despite progress toward a Covid-19 vaccine, suggesting that the US Congress “may have to do more” to cushion the blow from the pandemic.

Speaking at an online conference held by the European Central Bank, Powell joined Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde in emphasizing the longer-term threat to the economy from the pandemic.

The three central bankers welcomed the preliminary results showing a vaccine by BioNTech and Pfizer was highly effective.

Powell said the main risk to the economy “is the further spread of disease here in the United States” and that people may lose confidence that it is safe to go out: “We have said from the beginning that the economy will not fully recover until people are confident it is safe to resume activities involving crowds of people.”

He said news about the vaccine was “certainly good for the medium term” but that it was “too soon to assess the implications for the path of the economy, especially in the near term. And I would say that with the virus spreading, the next few months could be challenging.”

 

Powell said that though stimulus efforts from Congress and the Fed in the U.S. had been “quite strong” thus far, “my sense is that we will need to do more, and Congress may need to do more as well in fiscal policy.”

The three spoke as virus numbers climb and raise pressure for governments and central banks to do more to help. Germany, France, the U.K. and others have added new measures such as closing bars and restaurants while states and cities around the U.S. are imposing new restrictions.

All three central banks have deployed large-scale stimulus such as interest rate cuts and bond purchases that aim to keep borrowing costs affordable for businesses.

 A multi-trillion-dollar stimulus, enacted in the spring, had helped sustain jobless Americans and ailing businesses but has since expired. The failure of lawmakers to agree on any new aid has clouded the future for the unemployed, for small businesses and for the economy as a whole. There is some hope, though, that a logjam can be broken and more economic relief can be enacted during a post-election “lame-duck” session of Congress between now and early January.

Powell said that technological change accelerated by the pandemic would leave some workers struggling to adapt. “We’re recovering to a different economy,” he said, and there will be a substantial number of workers who will need support as the economy is changed by the pandemic.

Powell has also said that policymakers discussed last week whether and how the Fed’s bond buying program might be altered to provide more economic support.

The Fed is buying $120 billion a month in bonds – $80 billion in Treasurys and $40 billion in mortgage bonds – to try to keep long-term borrowing costs low.

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