The Fed won’t follow its recent hint that it could increase as well as reduce the pace of its monthly asset purchases by stating what combination of the unemployment and inflation rates would trigger a shift. Summarising such a complex decision into two numbers is not practical and ignores the potential costs of QE, which have recently played a larger role in the policy debate.
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