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What the FOMC Minutes Reveal about Normalization

Tate Lacey/July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 /2 Comments

The Federal Reserve released the minutes from its June policy-setting meeting yesterday afternoon. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes reflect an economic outlook consistent with recent public comments made by Fed officials: an improving labor market, confidence that the current path of monetary policy will achieve 2% inflation…

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Can the Fed Raise Interest Rates?

Gerald P O'Driscoll/August 9, 2016August 9, 2016 /10 Comments

I chose my title carefully. I will focus on what is possible for the U.S. central bank to achieve rather than what they might want to accomplish or may attempt to effect. I examine three possible senses in which the Federal Reserve could not raise interest rates,…

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What the FOMC Minutes Reveal about Normalization

Can the Fed Raise Interest Rates?