Fed's Labor Market Forecasts Don't Make Sense
Tim Duy:
Fed's Labor Market Forecasts Don't Make Sense, by Tim Duy: The Federal Reserve’s unemployment forecast doesn’t add up. It is neither consistent with the median of policy makers’ growth forecasts nor consistent with Chair Janet Yellen’s description of labor market strength. Hence, central bankers will likely find unemployment undershooting their forecast in the second half of 2017. That will keep the central bank in a hawkish mood even if lackluster inflation continues. ...Continued at Bloomberg Prophets...
Posted by Mark Thoma on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:43 AM in Economics, Monetary Policy |
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