The system worked. Moreover, following September 11, 2001, we found that the Y2K preparations and fixes had far-greater reach than we had realized,
An increase in inflation doggedly forecast to follow the ever lower unemployment rate--now the lowest in three decades -- has not occurred,
Structural productivity continues to grow at a firm pace, and rebuilding activity following the hurricanes should boost real GDP growth for a while, ... More uncertainty, however, surrounds the outlook for inflation.
History cautions that extended periods of low concern about credit risk have invariably been followed by reversal, with an attendant fall in the prices of risky assets.
The changes in the budget outlook over the past several years are truly remarkable, ... We need to resist those policies that could readily resurrect the deficits of the past and the fiscal imbalances that followed in their wake.