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No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... the Economic Club of New York on the 29th of March: "...the median of FOMC participants' projections for the federal funds rate is now only 0.9 percent for the end of 2016 and 1.9 percent for the end of 2017, both 1/2 percentage point below the December ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... anticipates that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant only gradual increases in the federal funds rate. In addition, the Committee expects that the federal funds rate is likely to remain, for some time, below the levels that ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... Committee continues to anticipate that conditions will likely warrant maintaining "the current range for the federal funds rate for a considerable time after the asset purchase program ends, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... the 17th of December 2015. "This action marks the end of an extraordinary seven-year period during which the federal funds rate was held near zero to support the recovery of the economy from the worst financial crisis and recession since the Great Depression. ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... disrupting financial markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession. Moreover, holding the federal funds rate at its current level for too long could also encourage excessive risk-taking and thus undermine financial stability." ...

Pepared for "lift-off" watch out for "ceasing"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... the SOMA after the Committee begins to normalize the stance of policy by increasing the target range for the federal funds rate." "Participants referred to the Committee's statement on Policy Normalization Principles and Plans, which indicates that the ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... unlikely that the information available by the December meeting would warrant raising the target range for the federal funds rate at that meeting." "They indicated that they would be assessing a range of labor market indicators over the period ahead ...

A December lift if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
... simple. In December 2008, for example, the FOMC said it expected that conditions would warrant keeping the federal funds rate near zero for "some time." This period before the "liftoff" in the federal funds rate was described in increasingly specific ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... rule designed to guide monetary policy: i = r* + pi + 0.5 (pi - pi*) + 0.5 ( y - y*) where i is the nominal federal funds rate, r* is the "natural" real federal funds, pi is the rate of inflation, pi* is the target inflation rate (for example, 2%), y ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... "expectation not a commitment". "Both the timing of the first rate increase and any subsequent adjustments to the federal funds rate target will depend critically on future developments in the economy." "We do not currently anticipate that the effects ...