Powell: Fed Could Keep Lifting Rates Sharply 'For Some Time'

Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curb inflation.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed will likely impose more large interest rate hikes in coming months and is resolutely focused on taming the highest inflation rate in four decades.

Powell also warned more explicitly than he has in the past that the Fed's continued tightening of credit will cause pain for many households and businesses as its higher rates further slow the economy and potentially lead to job losses.

"These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation," he said in a high-profile speech at the Fed's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain."