【Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes: Unemployment Rate Expected to Rise Slightly】Golden Finance reports that the Federal Reserve's December meeting minutes indicate that staff predict the U.S. economy will remain robust. The actual GDP growth is expected to slow slightly compared to previous baseline forecasts, and the unemployment rate is anticipated to rise slightly, but will still be close to the staff's estimate of the natural rate of unemployment. In the staff's baseline forecast, the inflation projection for 2024 is slightly higher than the forecast made at the last meeting, reflecting some unexpected upward data in recent times, and it is expected that the inflation rate will drop to 2% by 2027, consistent with the November meeting's forecast.