As the Federal Reserve’s open markets committee meets for its crucial two-day session in Washington, Janet Yellen faces her first real policy test since assuming the chair in February 2014. Amazingly, she is already almost halfway through her first term. But, so far she has had the relatively easy task of piloting the exit from quantitative easing. The exit plan had already been mapped out by Ben Bernanke, and it was not particularly contentious inside the committee.
隨著美聯儲公開市場委員會(FOMC)在華盛頓召開為期兩天的關鍵會議,珍妮特?耶倫(Janet Yellen)面臨著自2014年2月接任美聯儲主席以來的首次真正政策考驗。令人驚訝的是,她的首個任期已經幾乎過半。但到目前為止,她所做的只是相對容易的工作——引導美國退出量化寬松政策。該退出計劃早已由本?伯南克(Ben Bernanke)制定好,而且在該委員會內部也不存在特別大的爭議。