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Boston Fed President Susan Collins, in an interview last week, lightly defended both the dot plot and the Fed’s current balance-sheet operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

A Brookings survey found one-third of Fed watchers want fewer Fed speeches, but only 19% would scrap the dot plot.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Immigrants lived near the mission, and esteemed Spanish Mexican families lived in large mansions around the churches that dot Old Town in the mid-19th century — many came post-Spanish-Mexican wars.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

It featured a large black dot inside a circle, which sat inside another pair of circles, which were themselves nestled together like a pair of rings.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood