Summary of Economic Projections

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The Summary of Economic Projections is a quarterly report in which Federal Reserve policymakers present their forecasts for key U.S. economic indicators and the future path of monetary policy.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Federal Reserve publication
economic forecast report
access publicly available
associatedWith Federal Open Market Committee projections
Federal Reserve System
contributors Federal Reserve Bank presidents
Federal Reserve Board governors
country United States
createdBy FOMC participants
discloses participants’ individual projections, not a consensus forecast
format charts
explanatory text
tables
geographicScope U.S. economy
hostedOn Federal Reserve Board website
includes central tendency ranges
fan charts for uncertainty
full ranges of projections
longer-run normal federal funds rate estimate
longer-run normal unemployment rate estimate
longer-run potential real GDP growth estimate
longer-run projections of key variables
projections of core inflation
projections of inflation
projections of real GDP growth
projections of the federal funds rate
projections of unemployment rate
language English
legalBasis Federal Reserve’s commitment to transparency and communication
methodology individual projections conditioned on each participant’s view of appropriate monetary policy
partOf FOMC meeting materials
publicationFrequency quarterly
publishedBy Federal Open Market Committee
publisher Federal Reserve Board of Governors
purpose to communicate FOMC participants’ economic outlook
to provide transparency about future monetary policy
relatedTo FOMC minutes
FOMC statement
Monetary Policy Report
releaseTiming published after FOMC meetings with projection updates
replaced older FOMC forecast tables in the Monetary Policy Report
startDate 2007
subject U.S. macroeconomic outlook
monetary policy outlook
timeHorizon current year and next two calendar years plus longer run
usedBy economic forecasters
financial markets
policy analysts

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Federal Open Market Committee
Federal Reserve System
publishes

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