Tim Duy, Columnist

5 Questions for the Fed in 2018

The central bank will find more reasons to raise rates than hold steady, leaving the three-hike projection as the best bet.

December 28, 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC

By Tim Duy

Tim Duy is a professor of practice and senior director of the Oregon Economic Forum at the University of Oregon and the author of Tim Duy's Fed Watch.

Jerome Powell takes over.
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The Federal Reserve anticipates continued monetary tightening in 2018, as it seeks to match 2017’s pace of interest-rate hikes with another three quarter-point moves. As always, however, that projection depends on actual economic outcomes. With that in mind, here are five questions the Fed will face in 2018 as it charts a course for policy:

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