15-07-2016 18:41 via news.yahoo.com

Fed's Lockhart: Don't count on quick 'return to normal'

Dennis Lockhart became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in early 2007, with the economy still enjoying the steady growth and low unemployment of the "great moderation" and the U.S. central bank confident it could keep that rolling. Nearly a decade later the Fed has had to trash its playbook in the wake of a severe financial crisis, rethink how the economy works, and come to grips with a world where even the most powerful central bank does not so much set policy as get dragged tow
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