Mark Olson
Mark Olson
guys hard time younger
Yeah, and the younger guys have a hard time getting going.
absence additional helped inflation limited time
For most of the time that I have been on the board, there has been very limited pass-through of the additional costs. And the absence of that pass-through has helped keep inflation down,
anecdotes attention faster information pay reporting rolls useful
Real-time, on-the-ground anecdotes get to us faster than does the information that rolls up through the reporting process. Those anecdotes are enormously useful and we pay a lot of attention to them.
carefully core impact increases pass potential price watching
We are watching very carefully the potential impact of inflation, and especially any price increases that would pass through to core inflation.
across anecdotal hear increased power pricing starting
We are only now starting to hear indications of increased pricing power, but they're still anecdotal and we don't see it across the board.
close farm nobody people retire rural sad sizes
It's sad to say, but our rural communities are close to being extinct. Because when people like us retire in 10, 15 years, with farm sizes the way they are, there's going to be nobody left.
farms guy land tries
The farms are getting so huge. You know, they can farm so much. The guy that's got the land, he tries to get some more.
love odd
Big Love. It's really an odd way to look at marriage.
selling
It's expensive. If you're selling $2 corn, you can't make it.
extremely modest
This is an extremely modest step, but it is a step.
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This is the most secure note the U.S. government has ever produced.
addressing condition continuing economy economy-and-economics fiscal issues lack policy returned
It's the continuing lack of addressing the fundamental fiscal policy issues now that the economy has returned to a more-normal condition that we need to address,
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This $50 note is beautifully designed and includes important anti-counterfeiting features, ... is a job that's never finished.
pause policy removal until voted
As a result, I voted to pause in the removal of policy accommodation until more was known.