(Kitco News) – Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the central bank has its own contacts and data sources for monitoring the health of the U.S. economy despite the Federal government shutdown, and both inflation and employment do not appear to have changed significantly since the last Fed meeting.“Although some important government data have been delayed due to the shutdown, we routinely review a wide variety of public- and private-sector data that have remained available,” Powell told the National Association for Business Economics in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
