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15 March 2017 FOMC Meeting Minutes: Next Rate Increase Sooner Rather Than Later?
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 11:49
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– this post authored by Steven Hansen
The 15 March 2017 meeting statement presented the actions taken. This post covers the economic discussion during this FOMC meeting between the members (minutes were released today). There was considerable discussion on when to raise the federal funds rate again:
… Committee essentially had met its inflation goal or was poised to meet it later this year. In the view of these participants, such circumstances could warrant a faster pace of scaling back accommodation than implied by the medians of participants’ assessments in the SEP. …..
Source: http://econintersect.com/pages/releases/release.php?post=201704051323
