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Two Board Nominations, Confidence in the Outlook, Concerns about the Yield Curve and Trade Policy

Kevin Burgett Last week, Richard Clarida was nominated to be Vice Chairman of the Board (Clarida: Completing the Troika). He has questioned participants’ projections of an unemployment rate falling further below the NAIRU without inflation overshooting the 2% objective and the funds rate moving above its neutral level. While participants’ projections moved in this direction […]