QE3 could lead to excessive risk taking, Fed minutes show The Fed also said that it would consider adopting numerical thresholds for inflation and joblessness that would serve as guideposts for policy. "Most participants agreed that the use of numerical thresholds could be useful in providing more clarity about the conditionality of the forward guidance but thought that further work would be needed to address the related communications challenges," it said. With the nation's unemployment rate at 8.1pc and expected to have ticked even higher in September, the Fed made clear it will continue to ease policy until the jobs outlook improves substantially. It vowed to maintain stimulus as long as inflation is under control even after the recovery picks up steam. While the policy does appear to have broad consensus within the Fed's influential core, particularly its Washington-based board of presidentially appointed governors, there was some unease expressed by some officials.