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Fed Sees No Inflation Risk in Stimulus Policies

Minutes from end-of-April meeting reveal FOMC doesn't see tradeoff between employment and inflation in ongoing stimulus.

By Jeff Kearns and Craig Torres, Bloomberg | Updated on May 21, 2014

Federal Reserve policy makers, weighing options for an eventual exit from extraordinary easing, said continued stimulus to push unemployment lower doesn’t risk sparking an undesirable jump in the inflation rate.

With inflation expected to remain well below its 2 percent goal, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) doesn’t “face a tradeoff between its employment and inflation objectives, and an expansion of aggregate demand would result in further progress relative to both objectives,” according to minutes of their April 29-30 meeting released today in Washington.

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