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Low rates and high anxiety at Jackson Hole

August 25, 2016  Sam Fleming in Jackson Hole

The Fed’s annual gathering wrestles with tough questions about the future of central bank policy 

The opening event for many of the central bankers gathering for their annual symposium in Wyoming this year is not an academic address on monetary policy but a meeting with a coalition of left-leaning activists. Eight top US policymakers, including Bill Dudley of the New York Fed and Lael Brainard, a Fed governor, are due on Thursday to sit with representatives of the Fed Up group, among them workers on low wages from around the country.
They are likely to hear warnings against higher official interest rates and complaints that the central bank’s leadership is insufficiently diverse.

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