Jeffrey Lacker of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond voted against the latest Fed decision on the grounds that inflation would rise and require an interest rate hike.
Lacker, who opposed additional asset purchases and preferred to omit the description of the time period over which exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate are likely to be warranted.
The Fed is set to turn even more bullish in 2013, as its natural rotation sees two centrists and Jeffery Lacker, head of the Richmond Fed and a lone dissenter in the FOMC, replaced.