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The Federal Reserve’s dot plot is a graph that contains the Federal Open Market Committee participants’ forecasts of where they think the federal funds rate will head over the next several years.

The much-feared taper is finally here. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday last week announced that it will reduce its asset purchases by $15 billion a month in November and December 2021. Unlike in 2013 ...