Growing concern over US employment


US Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee. — Bloomberg

CHICAGO: US Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee says he is growing more concerned about the labour market than inflation amid recent progress on price pressures and disappointing jobs data.

Goolsbee said current interest rates are “very restrictive”, and would only be appropriate if the economy was overheating.

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