FOMC report was too pessimistic, according to Plosar
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
The President of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve – Charles Plosar said FOMC statement was too pessimistic and should be made recent progress in the economy. Was again repeated that the trend of GDP for 2012 and 2013 remain on the upside will be more than 3.0%. The improvement of the economy will continue. Plosar believe that unemployment will fall below 8% by the end of 2012 or even earlier. He stressed that the decision “allowing interest rates to near zero by the end of 2014″ not reflect the actual economic development and was not taken unanimously. Plosar said that is not happy with the new date for leaving the interest rate at a low level and according to him, it must be increased before the end of 2013 he stressed the fragility of the process of exiting the current programs of financial incentives. The article stressed that the FED should stop thinking he can do more for the economy and he himself sees no need to purchase new mortgage assets to lower interest rates.

