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Yellen, Janet

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

With respect to bubbles, I've stated my strong preferences to use macroprudential and supervision policies to address areas where we see concerns. And as I mentioned, we're doing that in the case of, for example, leveraged lending. But I would never take off the table totally the idea that monetary policy might be needed to address financial stability concerns. To me, now I don't see financial stability concerns at the level at this point where they need to be a key determinant of monetary policy. And it's not my preference as a first line of defense by any means. But I would never want to take off the table that in some circumstances, particularly if macroprudential tools failed, monetary policy might be called on to play a role. But we're not there.