Every Six Weeks,the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)meets to Discuss

question 82

Multiple Choice

Every six weeks,the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets to discuss monetary policy.This discussion is mainly focused on ________.

• A)information of the equilibrium real interest rate from the past three years
• B)the current month's release of the CPI by the BLS
• C)the three year projections of the equilibrium real interest rate
• D)the past 18 month history and future 18 month projections of the discount rate
• E)none of the above

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