{"id":45933,"date":"2014-09-18T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_the_federal_reserve_plots_a_cautious_course_on_interest_rate_rises\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:00:53","slug":"wsj_the_federal_reserve_plots_a_cautious_course_on_interest_rate_rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45933","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The Federal Reserve Plots a Cautious Course on Interest Rate Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve took two steps toward winding down the historic easy-money policies that have defined its response to the financial crisis, but stopped short of the move markets are awaiting most: signaling when interest rates will start to rise.<\/p>\n<p>With the economy gradually improving, U.S. central-bank officials plan to end the bond-buying program known as quantitative easing after October, hoping to finally stop expanding a six-year experiment in monetary policy that has left the Fed holding more than $4 trillion of Treasury and mortgage bonds.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed on Wednesday also detailed a new technical plan for how it will raise short-term interest rates, something most officials currently don&#8217;t intend to do until next year. The central bank has kept the federal-funds rate near zero since December 2008 and offered assurances along the way about rates remaining low, another part of its varied efforts to boost the post-financial-crisis economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/fed-rate-hike-view-still-eyes-2015-1410977029?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve took two steps toward winding down the historic easy-money policies that have defined its response to the financial crisis, but stopped short of the move markets are awaiting most: signaling when interest rates will start to rise.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45933\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,582,589,595,592,149,168,671,133,600,597,593,585,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-federal-reserve","category-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}