No V-Shape Return From Devastating US Job Loss, Fed Policymakers Say
SAN FRANCISCO—As many parts of the worlds biggest economy begin to reopen after weeks of stay-at-hom..
SAN FRANCISCO—As many parts of the worlds biggest economy begin to reopen after weeks of stay-at-home orders that slowed the spread of the CCP virus but gutted jobs, Americans should not expect a quick return to growth, U.S. Federal Reserve officials said on May 8.
“A couple months ago I was optimistic, I was hopeful, that maybe we would have a V-shaped recovery—shut things down, clamp down on the virus, and then have a quick recovery,” Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said in an interview on the PBS Newshour.
The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus has continued to spread across the nation, with nearly 1.3 million people infected so far and more than 77,000 dead.
With a vaccine and effective treatment unlikely for a year or two, “we are in for unfortunately a slow, long recovery” from “devastating” job losses, Kashkari said.
The U.S. economy shed a record 20.5 million jobs in April due to the lockdowns imposed by states and local governments to curb the spread of the virus, a Labor Department report showed Friday.
Interviewed by Fox News on Friday, President Donald Trump said that the jobs will be back. “Theyll be back very soon, and next year we are going to have a phenomenal year,” he said.
Thats not the dominant view at the Fed, which has slashed interest rates to zero, bought trillions of dollars of bonds, and extended credit to local governments and businesses in an effort to prevent financial markets from imploding and keep the economy from even worse devastation.
