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Title: Fed pushes back recovery forecast
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on April 08, 2009, 11:50:08 AM
According to minutes from its last meeting, the central bank now expects the economy to be flat in the second half of 2009 and grow slowly next year.

Federal Reserve policymakers lowered their economic outlook for the rest of the year at its meeting last month, suggesting that they may not be done taking unprecedented steps to try and jumpstart a recovery.

According to the minutes of the Fed's latest policy meeting, which were released Wednesday, the central bank said that gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, is likely to flatten out in the second half of 2009 and expand only slowly next year.

The Fed had previously forecast in January that GDP would start to recover in the second half of this year and that the economy would grow between 2.5% and 3.3% in 2010
Title: Re: Fed pushes back recovery forecast
Post by: shootfighter1 on April 08, 2009, 11:56:06 AM
Obama's massive budget deficits were published assuming optimistic growth numbers so we could be in an even worse state if the economy doesn't grow at the rates they used in their calculations.  Very irresponsible.
Title: Re: Fed pushes back recovery forecast
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on April 08, 2009, 12:01:45 PM
So much for a recovery by summer.