All participants anticipated that unemployment would remain substantially above its longer-run sustainable rate at the end of 2011, even absent further economic shocks; a few indicated that more than five to six years would be needed for the economy to converge to a longer-run path characterized by sustainable rates of output growth and unemployment and by an appropriate rate of inflation.

—FOMC summary of economic projections, January 27-28

That said, the central tendency for GDP growth is between 2.5-3.3% in 2010 and 3.8-5% in 2011.