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more than a year Beginning of this year we were losing almost three quarters of a million of jobs a month and the pace of loss of jobs has slowed dramatically You have seen the value of American savings rise...The Federal Reserve established by Con gress is responsible for trying to make sure that we keep inflation low and stable over time Representative Brady Are you shirking responsibility for the design of...of 6 percent a year We were losing between half a million and three quarters of a million jobs a month and that process was accelerating not slowing until the President of the United States came and took...

to wind down its emergency credit facilities and reduce excess bank reserves to pre vent higher inflation There are a number of questions to be asked and answered today I look forward to visiting with the...pressures diminished appreciably Weakness in de mand and reduced cost pressures have continued to keep inflation low so far this year Although energy prices have recently risen some the personal consumption expenditure...a year ear lier Food price inflation has also continued to slow as the moderation in crop and livestock prices has been passing through to the retail level Core PCE inflation which excludes food and energy...

about the debt And I will say well what does that mean to you Well they are con cerned then about inflation They are concerned about interest rates going up in the long term They are concerned about tax in...billion in goods last year an increase of 17 3 percent over 2009 and a sector recently reported 12 month job gains of 7 800 outpacing the Nation So I think I will start with you Mr Timmons I know it is not...

the development of a national manufacturing strategy something that this Com mittee explored last month H R 1366 my National Manufacturing Strategy Act would require government and private sector stake...jobs that are very difficult to fill right now So I have three positions that have been open for a month where my skill sets are very difficult to find in the market that I play Vice Chairman Brady Have...development of a national manufacturing strategy something that this committee explored in a hearing last month HR 1366 my Na tional Manufacturing Strategy Act would require government and private sector stakeholders...

Small businesses are not hiring They re continuing to lay off and consumer confidence is at an 18 month low We ve given back all the consumer confidence from the last year and a half The stimulus has not...sionist history on where our economy is He seems to have amne sia and does not remember that the last month that former Presi dent Bush was in office this country lost 790 000 jobs Because of the policies that...records and that does help them a little bit but for low wage workers I have a study coming out next month in American Sociological Review that looks at the impact of motherhood in terms of the motherhood...

reorganize the S Repts 80 1 vol 1 22 2 EMPLOYMENT PRODUCTION AND PURCHASING POWER committee this month No staff has yet been appointed The problems to be considered by the committee are the most complex...

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supply of goods and services As pointed out in the Board s statement to this committee correction of inflation at its advanced stand had to be on a broad front fiscal policy had to be our main reliance and monetary...bank s hold in the form of Government bonds So that it is a reversal of deficit financing which is inflation ary Therefore it is equally as deflationary on the money system as it is inflationary during The...by the fiscal and monetary operations during that same quarter Here is what they were During the 4 month period December through March the Federal Reserve purchased 8 6 billion dollars of Government securities...

laments that final sales grew at an anemic annual rate 0 6 percent during the first quarter of 2011 The month of May witnessed the unemploy ment rate rising above 9 percent again and a collapse of payroll employment...the opportunity I am going to refer to three charts dur ing my opening statement Two years ago this month the recession officially ended and the recovery officially began However it has been a very weak recov...uncertainty There is even concern of a another crisis but there are certainly concerns about higher inflation higher interest rates down the road So I think the solution to this slow recovery this weak recovery...

their productivity and their future earnings Dr von Wachter testified before this Committee last month that these younger workers face reduced earnings even 10 to 15 years later The cost to the econ omy...during their working life 280 a month He goes on to say That is the equivalent of requiring college graduates to buy and throw out a high end I pod each and every month of their life In conclusion today...teenagers overall only participate in the labor market at a rate of about 35 percent in any given month and out of those participating we have unemployment rates of 25 per cent for those people If we look...