Statement

Name: Dennis P. Lockhart

Summary: Fed’s Lockhart Says He Is Ready for Interest-Rate Liftoff: ""I'm ready for a decision to lift off" and push rates up from the near-zero setting they have rested at since December 2008, he told The Wall Street Journal. "I'm satisfied" the criteria set by the Fed to determine when to raise rates "have been substantially met.""

Lean: Hawkish

Substantially Similar to Prior Statements: No

Statement Date: December 7, 2015

Publication Date: December 7, 2015

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