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Fed officials clash on need for more easing
The philosophical divide within the U.S. Federal Reserve was on display on Tuesday as two top officials differed over the need to ease policy further. Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart, a voter this year on the U.S. central bank's policy-setting panel, said he was "a bit reticent at this point to pull the trigger on any new action," including more asset purchases, known as quantitative easing. But Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, a policy dove who has long endorsed more bond buys, said the Fed has a "tremendous" amount of room to ease policy more in part because the United States is not likely to see a ... (full story)
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