The Fed's December interest rate meeting could be 'off the charts'

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s Washington newsletter. Sign up here to get the latest business and economic news and insights from Washington straight to your inbox. In August 2003, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan kicked off the annual Jackson Hole gathering for economic policymakers with a speech acknowledging the trickiness of steering the U.S. economy through interest rates. “Uncertainty is not just an important feature of the monetary policy landscape, it is the definin ...