Outside the Fed, however, there is a growing sense that the path to a soft landing is unlikely.
Some analysts estimate the unemployment rate, which hit 3.7% in August, may need to rise as high as 7.5%.
The new projections, though, will include anonymous estimates from each official for where the policy rate should be at the end of 2022 and the following three years.
Reuters GraphicsThe 1.2-percentage-point difference between the two, the so-called "real" or inflation-adjusted federal funds rate, showed the Fed bowing to the need for tighter policy.
But inflation eventually will have to move for the Fed to change course.