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Today's Must-Must Read: Gavyn Davies: Who Is Right About the Equilibrium Interest Rate? - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

The FOMC… are certainly willing to publish the dots, and to spell out their views on the most likely path for the equilibrium real rate. But they are far from ready to risk a major disruption in the markets by telling investors explicitly that they have misjudged the hawkishness of the Fed. Why is this? Presumably it is because the Yellen camp concedes that there is great uncertainty about the equilibrium real rate…. The Bernanke/Yellen belief that the equilibrium rate will rise in the next 3 years as headwinds diminish is at best conjectural….
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