• Favors eliminating calendar date commitment to easing
  • Market response to incoming data would be automatic stabilizer if the Fed adopted thresholds
  • Would define a zone of inflation and unemployment where Fed would keep rates on hold
  • Optimal policy would hold rates near zero until early 2016
  • Says 2% inflation shouldn’t be considered a ceiling
  • FOMC must better communicate policy with rates so low
  • Hard to achieve consensus FOMC forecast on the economy