I ran across
this earlier and thought it was interesting. I copy & paste the most interesting part.
...Plosser, a noted hawk at the Federal Open Market Committee, expressed concerns over the unwinding of the central bank’s asset purchases. The Fed has undergone three stages of quantitative easing (QE) since the finical crash of 2008 in an effort to increase liquidity and stimulate lending. Its bond purchases of $85 billion-a-month last year have been dialed back at recent policy meetings, with $65 billion added to the economy this month as the Fed proceeds towards the exit door.
“I am very worried about the potential for unintended consequences of all this action. And it’s very difficult for us to know because we’ve never done this before,” Plosser said, adding that the curbing of this extra liquidity in the global economy would be “very challenging”.
“Sometimes if you don’t have Plan B, you don’t have a plan,” he warned...