The Fed's Projection for How High Rates Could Go?

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The Fed's projection is that interest rates will reach four point four % by the end of this year. Many commentators and economists think the fed will have to do a fair bit more than that. The fet itself is very uncertain, from meeting to meeting, what the inflation data is going to be like. It was really quite a spectacle to look at the way that the market reacted to yesterday's rate increase.

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