Us Fed Meet This Week To Weigh Risky Rate Rise

On the other: the so-called doves, mostly political appointees on the Fed board in Washington, who question whether rates should be raised when the economy is slowing.

There is a fundamental point of contention about how the economy's working, said James Annable, chief economist at First National Bank of Chicago. It's a debate about how fast the economy is growing and what it means to have an unemployment rate at 5.1 percent. A slim majority of economists polled by Reuters last week