Analysing the March Federal Open Market Committee meeting

Vincent Reinhart, chief economist and and macro strategist at Mellon Asset Management and former director of the Division of Monetary Affairs and secretary and economist of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and Seth Carpenter, chief US economist at UBS and former deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, join Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, to discuss the March FOMC meeting and the state of the Fed’s toolkit. Their conversation covers topics including how the current fiscal outlook is impacting the Fed, the central bank’s monetary policy options, prospects for future rounds of quantitative easing, and how all of this feeds into Fed decision-making.

Panelists:

Seth Carpenter
Chief US Economist, UBS
Former Deputy Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board

Vincent Reinhart
Chief Economist, Macro Strategist, Mellon Asset Management
Former Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board

Timings:
14:00-15:00 (London)
10:00-11:00 (New York)

This meeting will be recorded and will be available on OMFIF On Demand.