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Fed’s Bullard: QE3 Launched Too Soon, Concerned of the Risk of Inflation

“The Federal Reserve should have waited for clearer signs of a flagging economy before launching its new bond-buying program, the head of the St. Louis regional Fed bank said, adding that he would have voted against it.

James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Fed, also told Reuters that he is sufficiently concerned about the risk of future inflation that he backs a controversial proposal by congressional Republicans for the Fed to return to having only a single mandate: preventing inflation.

The Fed currently has a dual focus on full employment and stable prices.”

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