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Goldman: FOMC Has Lowered The Future Inflation Bar For Rate Liftoff

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Despite the discussion of tapering at the June FOMC coming in largely in line with Goldman Sachs' expectations, the 2 hikes in 2023 in the dot plot was "particularly striking because the 2023 core PCE inflation forecast remained steady at 2.1%".

  • To Goldman, this can be explained by the FOMC taking "a more firmly backward-looking interpretation of average inflation targeting than we had assumed", lowering the future inflation bar for liftoff, vs a larger sustained overshoot of 2%.
  • They point out that inflation will have already average over 2% by 2021, so the hiking dots for 2023 represent a hawkish interpretation of the flexible average inflation targeting framework.
  • "We had previously assumed that the Fed leadership would instead desire a larger sustained overshoot of 2% to hammer home its commitment to the new framework in the very first cycle where it is in place."
  • As such, Goldman brought forward its forecast for rate liftoff to 3Q 2023 from 1Q 2024 previously.



Source: Goldman Sachs

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