in an interview with the wall street journal published monday kansas city fed president esther george said the central bank should consider asset sales but also said she wasnt convinced of the need for a 50basispoint rate hike in march george said the fed doesnt have the luxury of spending more time to design its assetsale strategy though she said it doesnt have to announce a move in march she doesnt as yet back a 50point hike if we get to march and the data says we should be talking about that a halfpoint rate increase im sure that will be in play but im not sure that is the answer per se to how we get there george said george is a voting member of the federal open market committee this year