FOMC could do with a revamp: ex-Fed deputy

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) should introduce staff, instead of committee, forecasts, recommended Alan Blinder, a former vice-chairman of the Fed.

"The F OMC's forecasts are a curious hodge-podge which are hard to interpret and which may have little relevance to actual monetary policy decisions," said Blinder in a lecture on the design of monetary policy committees.

The 19 members of the committee never meet to discuss differences in their forecasts and they each generate forecasts

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