BlockBeats news, on November 22, during this week's speech, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee and Fed Governor Michelle Bowman expressed sharply different views on the theoretical neutral interest rate level. The neutral interest rate refers to the rate that allows the Fed's various economic goals to be balanced. Goolsbee emphasized that the Fed still needs to lower interest rates further to reach this level—he called this rate "far below where we currently are." Meanwhile, Bowman stated, "We may be closer to a neutral policy stance than we currently think." Will Compernolle of FHN Financial pointed out that given that in the September forecasts, Fed officials anonymously estimated the neutral interest rate range to be between 2.375% and 3.75%, it is not surprising to see such a divergence. (Jin Shi)