The Fed Moves

The Fed has just announced their decision to raise short-term interest rates by 0.25%. From their statement:

The Committee believes that, even after this action, the stance of monetary policy remains accommodative and, coupled with robust underlying growth in productivity, is providing ongoing support to economic activity. After moderating earlier this year partly in response to the substantial rise in energy prices, output growth appears to have regained some traction, and labor market conditions have improved modestly. Despite the rise in energy prices, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months.

Later I’ll have more to say about why I would have voted against this rate increase.

Kash