Federal Reserve officials aren’t quite sure what to do about their dots. Every quarter, the central bank produces a chart of 19 officials’ individual projections for interest rates, with a dot representing each person’s expected value of the Fed’s benchmark rate in coming years. Most of them see this so-called dot plot as a valuable communications tool, but it has increasingly contributed to investor confusion.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 18, 2019 09:22 UTC