Fed's Robert Kaplan is OK with keeping rates steady but wants to look at the balance sheet
Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said he's comfortable with where interest rates are but thinks the central bank needs to talk this year about the size of its balance sheet.
"I don't think we should be making any moves at this point on the fed funds rate," he said during an interview on "The Exchange" and aired from the American Economic Association conference in San Diego. "We'll keep revisiting that as the year goes on."
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