By Michelle Jamrisko | BloombergNews
All but one of 55 economists surveyed by Bloomberg last week are convinced the Federal Reserve is too spooked to increase the benchmark interest rate at their Oct. 27-28 gathering. So what hurdles must the U.S. economy surmount over the next two months in order for policy makers to justify a rate hike at the following meeting in December?
Jeremy Lawson, chief economist at Standard Life Investments Ltd. in Edinburgh, has a checklist in mind: