I’m still trying to understand what this statement means:
Financial markets have not fully understood that the U.S. Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates exceptionally low for an extended period means they will stay low beyond when officials normally would raise them, a top Fed official said on Friday.
“I don’t think markets have really digested what that means,” St Louis Fed President James Bullard said in an interview.
The Fed’s strategy is aimed at promoting a future rise in inflation, which should provide an immediate boost in activity in anticipation of a future boom, but that hasn’t happened, Bullard said.