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The US federal funds rate will be at least ~4% by December 31, 2022.

A scored prediction by Benjamin Cowen, made on .

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So one could argue that there's essentially like a 97 likelihood that the federal funds rate by the end of the year is going to be at least four percent.

The US federal funds rate will be at least ~4% by December 31, 2022.

Made on
2022-09-21
Outcome
Hit
Importance
3 / 5
Effect on score
+2.99

What counted as right

Status
resolved
Settled on
2022-12-31

The upper-bound federal funds rate target is at or above 4.0% as of 2022-12-31.

Criterion (upper bound >= 4.0% as of 2022-12-31) is met: actual upper bound 4.50%. Dec 14 was the last FOMC meeting of 2022; no further change before year-end. No outcome value assigned per instructions.

Sources

  • Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates 75 bps

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Evidence of what happened

  • On Dec 14, 2022 the FOMC raised the target range for the federal funds rate to 4.25%–4.50%, setting the upper-bound at 4.50% for the remainder of 2022. This is the final target set before year-end 2022, so as of 2022-12-31 the upper bound was 4.50%, i.e. at or above 4.0%.

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Corrections

No public corrections.

Effect on the score

+2.99
How sure they sounded
97%
Outcome
Hit
Importance
3 / 5

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The US federal funds rate will be at least ~4% by December…
Methodology version
v1.0.0
Last computed
August 2, 2026
Made on
2022-09-21

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