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Outgoing Chair Jerome Powell last year shelved an attempt to revisit officials’ “dot plot” exercise, where they pencil in where they expect rates to go.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Like you can throw a pencil in the air and how many times does it land on its tip.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

Isabel Schnabel -- widely considered a hawk who is particularly wary of inflation -- fuelled expectations of possible rate-rises down the line after telling Bloomberg she was "rather comfortable" to see traders pencil in hikes.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

“I didn’t pencil in any cuts” next year, he said, because the Fed is going to have to maintain downward pressure “just to hold the line” on inflation.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

He broke his favorite drawing pencil in half and threw it into the wastebasket.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville




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