FOMC statement of September 21, 2010
This statement of the Federal Open Market Committee, compared sentence by sentence with the scheduled statement before it: what changed in the text, and how the Committee voted.
In short
The Federal Open Market Committee released this statement on September 21, 2010. Compared with the previous scheduled statement of August 10, 2010: 10 sentences changed, 4 were added, 3 were removed, and 1 stayed the same. In words: 137 added, 156 removed. The vote on this statement: 1 member voted against: Thomas M. Hoenig. On the August 10, 2010 statement: 1 member voted against: Thomas M. Hoenig.
FOMC statement · September 21, 2010
Changed sentences against the previous scheduled statement (August 10, 2010)
1 unchanged · 10 changed · 4 added · 3 removed · words +137 / −156
- August 10, 2010
- 1 member voted against: Thomas M. Hoenig.
- September 21, 2010
- 1 member voted against: Thomas M. Hoenig.
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June August indicates that the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months.
Business spending on equipment and software is rising; however, though less rapidly than earlier in the year, while investment in nonresidential structures continues to be weak and employers remain reluctant to add to payrolls.
Employers remain reluctant to add to payrolls.
Housing starts remain are at a depressed level.
Bank lending has continued to contract, but at a reduced rate in recent months.
Nonetheless, The Committee anticipates a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability, although the pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated.
Measures of underlying inflation are currently at levels somewhat below those the Committee judges most consistent, over the longer run, with its mandate to promote maximum employment and price stability.
Measures of underlying inflation have trended lower in recent quarters and, With substantial resource slack continuing to restrain cost pressures and longer-term inflation expectations stable, inflation is likely to be remain subdued for some time before rising to levels the Committee considers consistent with its mandate.
The Committee will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and continues to anticipate that economic conditions, including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stable inflation expectations, are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of for the federal funds rate for an extended period.
To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities.
1 The Committee will continue to roll over the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities as they mature.
The Committee also will maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its securities holdings.
The Committee will continue to monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and will employ its policy tools as necessary is prepared to promote provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery and price stability to return inflation, over time, to levels consistent with its mandate.
Voting against the policy was Thomas M. Hoenig, who judges judged that the economy is recovering modestly, as projected continues to recover at a moderate pace.
Accordingly, he believed that continuing to express the expectation of exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period was no longer warranted and limits the Committee's ability will lead to adjust policy when needed future imbalances that undermine stable long-run growth.
In addition, given economic and financial conditions, Mr. Hoenig did not believe that keeping constant the size of the Federal Reserve's continuing to reinvest principal payments from its securities holdings of longer-term securities at their current level was required to support a return to the Committee's policy objectives.
The Open Market Desk will issue a technical note shortly after the statement providing operational details on how it will carry out these transactions.
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Household spending is increasing gradually, but remains constrained by high unemployment, modest income growth, lower housing wealth, and tight credit.
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System — the statement on federalreserve.gov · August 10, 2010
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