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The Fed chairman, who has previously criticised the central bank’s forecasting tools and forward guidance practices, confirmed after the meeting that he had chosen not to submit his own interest-rate outlook. “I did not submit a dot for me,” Warsh told reporters. “It’s not helpful in the conduct of policy. I suspect by year-end, as I mentioned in my opening statements, there’ll be a review about communication broadly, press conferences, dots, meetings, and the like, transcripts, minutes. This will be part of that. I don’t want to prejudge the outcomes there, but I’m pretty open-minded about what they could be.”