美国时间周三下午，美联储主席终于正式放话，被媒体解读为将有可能在三月份就完成债券购买并随即加息。美联储主席对当前的通胀和就业给出如下判断：

关于通胀，他的表述是”slightly worse” than in December，比12月份还要稍微糟糕。

关于就业率，他的表述是：”There’s quite a bit of room to raise interests without threatening the labor market. This is by so many measures a historically tight labor market — record levels of job openings, quits, wages are moving up at the highest pace they have in decades”—-他认为加息的空间是足够的，并且加息不会威胁劳动力市场。