William Poole Quotations

Other economy-wide developments, especially income and employment growth, typically exert a much greater influence on the consumer's pocketbook and spending habits than does the state of the housing industry.

Our aim is to keep inflation, in general, down. If I had to pick a point, it is to keep these broad measures in a one to two percent range.

We want to make sure that we don't have expectations build of a longer-run problem,

My view is that the economy is on a very solid track. As long as the inflation rate stays where it is there's no reason not to have the economy continue to grow.

My personal experience is that I find it exceedingly difficult to predict how people will interpret policy actions and the nuances of the press release.

The fact that housing might turn a little bit weak is not a sign that economic growth is at risk, but rather that you have displacement from one sector to a different sector.

I see no reason why we should not see a similarly benign inflation outcome this year,

We don't have any schedule in front of us.

I, myself, am not looking beyond one meeting because I think that we are close enough to the region that is equilibrium.

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.