The Most Significant Stat the Federal Reserve Revealed Today for Middle Class Americans

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Middle class Americans who have little time to understand the Federal Reserve and its sometime arcane policies only need to know one thing from its most recent statement. Economic growth for all of 2014 will be significantly smaller than the central bank forecast just three months ago. Fed members projected 2014 gross domestic product to hit between 2.1% and 2.3%, which is a huge cut from their March forecast of 2.8% to 3%. The cut largely is due to the unexpectedly cold weather large swaths of the country experienced at the beginning of the year, and which economists largely blamed for the -1% contraction the United States experienced in economic growth. "It still implies GDP growth will average roughly 3.0% at an annualised pace over the final three quarters of this year," Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, wrote Wednesday in a note to clients. While the Fed said it expects unemployment to dip lower by year-end, it suggested that the sluggish recovery Americans have experienced since hitting a bottom in 2009 likely isn't speeding up anytime soon. -- Written by Joe Deaux in New York. >Contact by Email. Follow @JoeDeaux // 0;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); // ]]>

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