| two | 2.961 | Jump to 42.879 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | interest rates near zero and updated its | 4.479 | Jump to 325.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | growth stands at 5.5 percent this year | 6.16 | Jump to 402.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and 4 next year | 5.041 | Jump to 405.039 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | months averaging 378 000 per month over | 5.92 | Jump to 418.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the last three months | 4.08 | Jump to 422.16 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                  | substantially falling six tenths of a | 4.959 | Jump to 426.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and reaching 4.2 percent in november | 5.761 | Jump to 431.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | unemployment rate declining to 3.5 | 5.199 | Jump to 496.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | well above our two percent longer run | 2.88 | Jump to 537.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | closer to our two percent longer run | 4.479 | Jump to 576.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | participants falls from 5.3 percent this | 6.161 | Jump to 583.279 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | year to 2.6 percent next year | 5.28 | Jump to 586.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | reaffirmed the zero to one-quarter | 3.36 | Jump to 633.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | with inflation having exceeded two | 3.04 | Jump to 647.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | rate is 0.9 percent at the end of 2022 | 5.759 | Jump to 669.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of 2024 these projections do not | 4.48 | Jump to 687.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and no one knows with any certainty | 3.839 | Jump to 692.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | purchases by 20 billion dollars for | 4.481 | Jump to 708.399 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | treasury securities and 10 billion | 3.361 | Jump to 710.959 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | keep rates near zero until label market | 4.32 | Jump to 800.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | three rate hikes penciled in the | 3.279 | Jump to 806.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one number that that sort of dominates | 4.961 | Jump to 867.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | have any impact for six months or a year | 3.28 | Jump to 913.6 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        six months or a year
                      
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                  | the first part of your question which is | 3.519 | Jump to 932.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two meetings away now from from | 3.76 | Jump to 952.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | variable lags is an interesting one | 3.2 | Jump to 963.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | year or 18 months shorter than that | 3.92 | Jump to 985.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh since we're two meetings away from | 4.48 | Jump to 1043.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the taper and the first interest rate | 4.48 | Jump to 1083.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | increase back in 2014 the guidance was | 4.24 | Jump to 1085.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we had our first discussion about the | 4.0 | Jump to 1114.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | this you said four percent | 3.92 | Jump to 1197.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we had in february of 2020 and i think | 5.04 | Jump to 1233.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so i would say look we're we're at 4.2 | 4.32 | Jump to 1261.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of four percent | 4.24 | Jump to 1269.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | labor labor first participation of | 3.041 | Jump to 1280.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | certainly welcomed the two-tenths | 3.44 | Jump to 1305.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of your colleagues the | 4.079 | Jump to 1462.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that's a first draft uh we're a long way | 5.2 | Jump to 1524.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we'll know a whole lot more in three | 2.64 | Jump to 1614.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | six weeks | 3.76 | Jump to 1617.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | comfortable putting away one of your | 4.561 | Jump to 1622.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | certainly we had five months of | 4.4 | Jump to 1715.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of the consequences of that is that | 3.199 | Jump to 1740.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | high 5.7 uh reading for the employment | 5.76 | Jump to 1759.039 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | compensation index for the third quarter | 3.839 | Jump to 1762.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | not annualized for the third quarter | 5.36 | Jump to 1764.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for a second there whether we whether we | 3.921 | Jump to 1770.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | next friday after the meeting two days | 3.039 | Jump to 1779.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | tight labor market six tenths over one | 5.2 | Jump to 1819.44 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        six tenths over one
                      
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                  | noted that the eci was one of the things | 3.52 | Jump to 1837.279 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you what you're talking about the three | 2.88 | Jump to 1994.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that growth will be four percent and | 3.2 | Jump to 1999.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | then unemployment will be three and a | 3.04 | Jump to 2000.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we no one will say oh we can't we can't | 4.321 | Jump to 2012.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | down in december that no one's ever said | 4.32 | Jump to 2018.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | have to wait you know we look at our two | 3.361 | Jump to 2035.519 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of the things you look at | 3.279 | Jump to 2176.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of the things you could get to 20 if you | 4.16 | Jump to 2182.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and wages that's that's really one of | 3.681 | Jump to 2197.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | another one uh | 3.12 | Jump to 2201.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the quits rate is is really one of the | 3.68 | Jump to 2202.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | about it but the the the one of the | 4.16 | Jump to 2230.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | move up in two years would we wait two | 4.24 | Jump to 2245.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in real time is is one way to think | 4.32 | Jump to 2258.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | second if if you do raise interest rates | 6.399 | Jump to 2265.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the last expansion is one way of doing | 3.92 | Jump to 2345.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | everywhere that's one thing the the lack | 4.88 | Jump to 2394.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | may go back to being a one income rather | 3.76 | Jump to 2410.079 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | than a two income family the same thing | 3.92 | Jump to 2411.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | number one thing it would | 4.72 | Jump to 2503.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | february 2020 levels because people are | 5.36 | Jump to 2529.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | um but uh so one would expect over time | 5.801 | Jump to 2548.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2020 indeed for the for the year or so | 5.679 | Jump to 2574.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | before that is a good one and i mean i | 5.599 | Jump to 2576.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | is one of them and we'd love to get back | 3.921 | Jump to 2609.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it might be one of the two big threats | 4.16 | Jump to 2620.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | having over the last 40 years we've had | 4.159 | Jump to 2635.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i think three of the four longest in our | 3.919 | Jump to 2637.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | last one which was the longest in our | 3.441 | Jump to 2641.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | four point six percent month over month | 3.76 | Jump to 2677.2 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        four point six percent
                      
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                  | also department store sales down five | 4.0 | Jump to 2678.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | point four percent month over month how | 2.96 | Jump to 2680.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | fourth quarter | 2.56 | Jump to 2736.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | significantly for 2021 | 4.36 | Jump to 2755.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2022 and 2023 | 5.56 | Jump to 2759.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | up by by four tenths each so that's a | 4.161 | Jump to 2794.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for one reason as i just mentioned it's | 3.76 | Jump to 2899.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it's one of the two big threats the | 3.52 | Jump to 2902.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | a decade and more four-part financial | 4.319 | Jump to 2947.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | individually and and there are four key | 4.0 | Jump to 2958.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | variant that we have is that one but | 4.48 | Jump to 3043.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it's certainly one we're looking at | 4.641 | Jump to 3045.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you know one that we | 4.079 | Jump to 3058.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you know associated with one of the | 5.361 | Jump to 3123.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in two meetings and we'll be in a | 3.36 | Jump to 3267.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | about one it's a one and a quarter | 4.72 | Jump to 3340.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | medians are for four percent growth next | 4.0 | Jump to 3400.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | year three and a half percent | 3.521 | Jump to 3403.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh three hundred percent unemployment at | 4.0 | Jump to 3404.88 | 
                      
                        
                      
                        PERCENT
                      
                      
                        three hundred percent
                      
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                  | you know headline inflation of two point | 4.56 | Jump to 3408.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | six percent next year core 2.7 so this | 4.959 | Jump to 3410.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | is a strong economy it one in which it's | 3.6 | Jump to 3413.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | second question was | 4.8 | Jump to 3420.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | my second question was about uh runoff | 6.399 | Jump to 3423.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of a prelim first a first discussion of | 5.2 | Jump to 3433.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but to one degree or another people | 3.281 | Jump to 3457.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | right so we had three and a half percent | 5.199 | Jump to 3542.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | to two percent | 4.48 | Jump to 3549.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | no one had seen what three and a half | 2.561 | Jump to 3561.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one had seen what it would look like had | 2.401 | Jump to 3567.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | there was barely two percent inflation | 4.64 | Jump to 3576.4 | 
                      
                        
                      
                        PERCENT
                      
                      
                        barely two percent
                      
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                  | lifetime certainly historic the first | 5.359 | Jump to 3622.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | judge in 25 years whether whether we | 3.68 | Jump to 3642.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | is the right one for for the situation | 5.24 | Jump to 3651.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the tenure at a 146 basis points um do | 5.601 | Jump to 3663.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | actions over the last six weeks | 4.721 | Jump to 3676.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | happens we we end up cutting rates three | 4.24 | Jump to 3772.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two and a quarter to two and a half | 3.92 | Jump to 3776.24 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        two and a quarter to two and a half
                      
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                  | two days after the meeting and then one | 3.281 | Jump to 3837.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | week after that i think on the 12th of | 3.68 | Jump to 3838.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | concert with those two | 4.321 | Jump to 3844.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 10 days or so before | 3.84 | Jump to 3854.88 |  |  |