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Fed officials saw cost of doing too little to fight inflation outweighed doing too much
Federal Reserve policymakers agreed they needed to move to a more restrictive policy stance - and then maintain that for some time - in order to meet the U.S. central bank's goal of lowering inflation, a readout of last month's two-day meeting showed on Wednesday. The minutes of the Sept. 20-21 meeting showed many Fed officials "emphasized the cost of taking too little action to bring down inflation likely outweighed the cost of taking too much action." At the meeting, many officials said they had raised their assessments of the path of interest rate increases that would likely be needed to achieve the ... (full story)