# Quantitative Tightening ... loosened **URL:** \ **Category:** Macro Economic Trends and Risks\ **Created:** [March 20, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/quantitative-tightening-loosened/114757 "2025-03-20T15:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Hawkwin](https://g.foolcdn.com/misc-assets/discourse-member-avatar_120px_green600.png) [@Hawkwin](https://discussion.fool.com/u/Hawkwin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/quantitative-tightening-loosened/114757/4 "2025-03-20T21:18:04Z")
> [@MarkR](#): > > Seems like the Federal Reserve very quietly (sure it’s in their statement, but hardly anyone even noticed or apparently cares) Wendy did mention it in her post one hour prior: > [@FOMC Meeting and press conference](https://discussion.fool.com/t/fomc-meeting-and-press-conference/114753): > > The FOMC has pinpointed tariffs as a disruptor to the ongoing economic soft landing. Here is Fed Chair Powell’s press conference. Here is the FOMC’s Summary of Economic Projections. Since this is a committee the document presents the range of opinions. The distribution of participants’ projections for the change in real GDP for 2025–27 and over the longer run centers on 1.6 - 1.9%. This is significantly lower than the December 2024 FOMC meeting’s consensus of 2.0 - 2.3%. Their forecast fo… Personally, I don’t find it a reason to panic because this is a decision they can and will revisit at all future meetings. Maybe once the uncertainty of tariffs has abated, they will resume. I also would rather they be cautious and do this than run the risk of having to increase rates - which I think would be worse than slowing the shrink of their balance sheet. --- _[View the full topic](https://discussion.fool.com/t/quantitative-tightening-loosened/114757)._