白宫国家经济委员会主任凯文·哈塞特表示，牛肉和鸡蛋等商品价格一直在下降，尽管9月份的消费者价格数据显示整体通胀仍需政策关注。
House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said prices have been falling for items such as beef and eggs, though consumer price data for September shows overall inflation continues to need policy attention.
“如果你看前三个月的情况，通胀看起来完全受控，而现在看起来又回到了需要一些工作的状态，”哈塞特周一在接受CNBC采访时说。
“If you look at the previous three months, it looked like inflation was completely under control, and now it looks like it’s sort of back needing some work,” Hassett told CNBC Monday.
上周的数据显示，9月份消费者价格环比上涨0.6%，为五个月来最大涨幅；剔除食品和能源的核心通胀指数上涨0.3%，高于预期。
Data last week showed consumer prices advanced in September at the fastest pace in five months and a gauge of underlying price pressures rose by more than expected. The consumer price index rose 0.6% from a month earlier while a key measure of underlying price pressures, which excludes food and energy, was up 0.3%.
“这要么是下降趋势的某种中断，要么只是一个波动，”哈塞特在采访中表示。
“This is either a sort of break from the downtrend or a blip,” Hassett said in the interview.
美联储主席凯文·沃什上周未采取任何行动来消除市场对美联储将在本月末会议上维持利率不变的预期。在国际货币基金组织年会上的一次主持讨论中，沃什除了重申美联储将实现价格稳定外，未就货币政策或他对美国经济的前景发表任何评论。
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh last week did nothing to dispel market expectations that the central bank will hold interest rates steady when it meets at the end of the month. In a moderated discussion at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings, Warsh made no remarks on monetary policy or his outlook for the US economy, apart from reiterating that the Fed will deliver price stability.
哈塞特表示，他尊重美联储的独立性，并称沃什将“按照他认为正确的方式行事”。“人们对经济表现良好感到非常兴奋，因而增加了支出。当然，这是美联储需要关注的事情，”哈塞特说。
Hassett said he respects the central bank’s independence and said Warsh will “do what he thinks is the right thing.”“People are really euphoric about how well the economy is doing, and they’re spending more. And of course, that’s the kind of thing the Fed needs to pay attention to,” Hassett said.