The US Fed’s decision to start to publish forecasts for its key official interest rate could be another useful policy tool to keep long-term interest rates low, even though that is not the stated intention. However, experience from elsewhere and the current situation in the US itself suggest that this initiative alone may not make much difference in practice, either to markets or the real economy.
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