美聯儲副主席 美國顯現通脹上揚跡象
The US may be seeing the “first stirrings” of a long-awaited increase in inflation as the impact of a strong jobs market works its way through the economy, according to the Federal Reserve’s second-in-command.
美聯儲(Fed)副主席表示，隨着表現強勁的就業市場對經濟產生影響，美國可能出現了各方期待已久的通脹上揚“初步跡象”。
In a speech to a group of business economists yesterday, Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s vice-chairman, dismissed critics within the profession who have pointed to wage stagnation in the US as evidence that the traditional link between strong employment and inflation “must have been broken”.
斯坦利•費希爾(Stanley Fischer)昨日在對一羣企業經濟學家發表講話時，反駁了這一行的批評人士，他們以美國的工資停滯爲證據，稱就業強勁與通脹間的傳統關聯“一定已經被打破了”。
“I don’t believe that. Rather the link has never been very strong, but it exists, and we may well at present be seeing the first stirrings of an increase in the inflation rate — something that we would like to happen,” he told the National Association of Business Economists.
費希爾對全美企業經濟學家協會(National Association of Business Economists)表示：“我不相信這種說法。確切地說，這種關聯從來就不是很強，但它存在着，而我們很可能正在目睹通脹率上揚的初步跡象——而這正是我們希望發生的事情。”
The comments were his last in public before the March 15-16 meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, during which markets and Fed observers expect the US central bank to hold rates steady thanks to rising concerns about the global economy.
美聯儲聯邦公開市場委員會(FOMC)將於3月15日至16日召開政策制定會議，這是費希爾在會前的最後一次公開講話。由於對全球經濟的擔憂不斷上升，市場和美聯儲觀察人士預計美國央行在此次會議上將維持利率不變。
