Central Banks

Fed Officials Latch Onto ‘Scenarios’ as New Way to Communicate

  • Policymakers look for methods to better explain outlook risks
  • ‘Critical’ to outline various scenarios, Fed’s Musalem says
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There’s a new buzzword in central banking: scenarios.

A growing chorus of Federal Reserve officials is discussing the advantages of communicating how they would respond to various economic outcomes different from their baseline forecast.