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Ian Shepherdson, chief United States economist at High Frequency Economics, said he would take the Fed forecasts with a grain of salt.
The central bank has acquired more than $700 billion in mortgage-backed securities so far, and officials have said they will buy up to $1.25 trillion — a goal that should take the Fed until early next year.
"I want to take the Fed at its word and give them three months and a broader mandate.
Yet our leaders, who are supposed to be doing big things, seem instead to have made their peace with "the new normal". Take the Fed: it could be doing a lot more to create jobs, but instead it's guarding against the phantom bogeyman of inflation.
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The other steps take the Fed farther into uncharted territory.
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The Fed has taken the fed funds rate at from zero in 2015 to 2.25percenttodayay.
But even if we assume that the highest dot is Janet Yellen's and that by 2017 she will be exerting dictatorial control over the Fed, that only takes the fed funds rate to 4.25%.
This year, the Fed has hiked rates three times — taking the fed funds rate to a range of 2%to2.25%5% — and officials have suggested that they may raise rates once more before January to head off inflation.
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