Fed’s Goolsbee Says All Interest-Rate Options Are On The Table

May 8, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said all options on interest rates are on the table right now.

“I don’t see how you can look at the current situation and, at least to me, view that the only thing that’s on the table conceivably are rate cuts,” Goolsbee said Friday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.

WATCH: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee says he is less optimistic about disinflation progress.
Source: Bloomberg

Fed officials left interest rates unchanged at a meeting at the end of April. Three officials dissented against language in the statement that indicated the central bank’s next move is likely an interest-rate cut. They preferred to signal the next action ...

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