Fed’s Plosser forecasts 6.5% unemployment rate by end of 2014
- Sees rate at 7% by end of 2013
- Calls on Fed to promise to raise interest rates when rate hits 6.5%
- Time has come to reduce pace of bond buying, Wants QE to end by year end in gradual predictable manner
- Repeated changed to Fed’s policy targets likely caused more confusion than clarity
- Latest FOMC forecasts show committee has taken on board drop in unemployment over last 3-5 years
- Current period of low inflation is transitory
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