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WASHINGTON, March 5 | Tue Mar 5, 2013 3:26pm EST

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's aggressive monetary stimulus will make it harder for the U.S. central bank to engineer a smooth retreat from the unconventional policies, a top Fed official said on Tuesday.

"I fear that small mistakes (could have) large consequences," Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and an inflation hawk who has been skeptical of central bank bond buying.

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srage wrote:
How do you stop printing money that should not be printed at all. How do you withdraw drugs from an addict that never should have been supplied with them in the first place?.

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