{"id":104394,"date":"2021-01-11T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=104394"},"modified":"2021-01-11T21:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:53:01","slug":"feds-barkin-says-workers-not-inflation-are-his-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/feds-barkin-says-workers-not-inflation-are-his-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#x27;s Barkin says workers, not inflation, are his focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figcaption>FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin poses during a break at a Dallas Fed conference on technology in Dallas, Texas, U.S., May 23, 2019. REUTERS\/Ann Saphir\/File Photo<\/figcaption><p>(Reuters) &#8211; Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin on Monday said he is more worried about the labor market than possible excess inflation as he assesses the effects of the pandemic, the rollout of vaccines, and past and future fiscal relief on the economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do worry about adjustments that businesses have made,\u201d including automation and other adaptations that could make it more difficult for people who lost jobs in the recession to find new ones, Barkin told CNBC in an interview. Fiscal relief is likely \u201cto support spending over several years\u201d and even if there is inflation, the Fed has the tools to control it, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-fed-barkin\/feds-barkin-says-workers-not-inflation-are-his-focus-idUSU5N2EU021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin poses during a break at a Dallas Fed conference on technology in Dallas, Texas, U.S., [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fed&#x27;s Barkin says workers, not inflation, are his focus - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/feds-barkin-says-workers-not-inflation-are-his-focus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fed&#x27;s Barkin says workers, not inflation, are his focus - 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