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Friday, April 18, 2014

Janet Yellen: Full employment, stable inflation 'plausible' by the end of 2016

By Joseph Lawler | APRIL 16, 2014

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen says she thinks that a healthy economy is in sight, but not before the end of 2016.

In a speech at the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday, Yellen noted that the Fed's monetary policy committee's latest projections were for the unemployment rate to fall within the range of what officials think is full employment for the U.S., 5.2 to 5.6 percent, by the end of 2016, and for inflation to rise to about 1.7 to 2 percent.

If that forecast comes true, Yellen noted, it mean that the economy had achieved “maximum employment” and stable inflation “for the first time in nearly a decade.” That scenario, she said, is “quite plausible.”.....To Read More.....

 

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