Fed Is Shooting at a Moving Target
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Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Tinkering around the edges. That’show it strikes me, all this talk about adjusting thresholds andoffering more and better forward guidance.
In the old days, the Federal Reserve had tools to fix whatailed the U.S. economy. Too much inflation? Raise the benchmarkfederal funds rate. Recession the problem? Lower the rate.