美聯儲官員表示 加息理由充足
One of the Federal Reserve’s rate-setters has described the case for a further increase in short-term interest rates as compelling, arguing that the trends for employment and inflation are in the right direction.
美聯儲(Fed)利率制定者之一稱，進一步提高短期利率理由充足，辯稱就業與通脹的趨勢都處於正確方向。
Loretta Mester, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said the US economy had proven itself to be resilient through a number of shocks which was why a gradual upward path for the federal funds target range was appropriate.
克利夫蘭聯邦儲備銀行(Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)行長洛麗塔•梅斯特(Loretta Mester)表示，美國經濟已在許多次衝擊中證明了自身的韌性，這正是爲什麼聯邦基金利率目標區間處於逐漸上升態勢是合適的。
The Federal Open Market Committee member acknowledged there still might be negative risks looming overseas — for example the slower Chinese growth rate and the aftermath of the Brexit vote — but she argued that the central bank also needed to recognise upside risks.
這位聯邦公開市場委員會(FOMC)成員承認，海外仍可能存在撲面而來的負面風險——例如中國經濟增速放緩、英國公投退歐的影響——但她認爲，美聯儲也需要認識到上行風險。
If you inappropriately keep interest rates too low for too long then you put yourself in a position of perhaps having to raise interest rates more strongly in the future, Ms Mester said, who votes on rates this year as part of the regular rotation between regional Fed presidents.
如果不適當地在過低水平維持利率太久，那你就會把自己置於一個未來或許不得不更大幅提高利率的地位，梅斯特說，這些都是我們必須權衡的風險……我們必須非常機敏。
Those are the kind of risks we have to weigh . . . We have to be very deft about it.
作爲地區聯儲銀行行長定期輪換的一部分，梅斯特今年參加對利率的投票。
Her words in an interview with the Financial Times followed a speech from Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, who signalled a rate increase was on the cards in the coming months.
她是在美聯儲主席珍妮特•耶倫(Janet Yellen)發表演講後在接受英國《金融時報》採訪時說此番話的，耶倫暗示未來幾個月可能進行加息。
Ms Yellen’s intervention at the Kansas City Fed’s symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, came after a number of other Fed colleagues including Stanley Fischer, the vice-chair of the Federal Reserve Board, and Bill Dudley, the president of the New York Fed, signalled they were open to a move.
耶倫在懷俄明州傑克遜霍爾(Jackson Hole)堪薩斯城聯儲銀行(Kansas City Fed)的研討會上暗示加息之前，她的多名同事——包括美聯儲副理事會主席斯坦利•費希爾(Stanley Fischer)、紐約聯儲銀行(New York Fed)行長比爾•達德利(Bill Dudley)——都表示對加息持開放態度。
However, the minutes to the Fed’s July meeting suggested there are deep divisions among policymakers over how quickly to move.
然而，美聯儲會7月會議記錄似乎顯示，針對多快採取行動加息，政策制定者們之間存在嚴重分歧。
