• Consumer spending, labor mkt improving
  • Real estate weakness will not prevent recovery
  • Failure to exit easy policy in timely manner will have serious consequences
  • Reverse policy by raising rates, selling bonds at same time
  • Important to communicate Fed’s intentions

A pretty hawkish take from the Philly Fed president…Clearly, QE2 is the end of the Fed’s money-printing experiment. Nearly all Fed speakers are on the same page on that regard…