This week marked the end of the Fed’s hopes for a normal economic recovery and the beginning of an acknowledgment from the central bank that a return to “normal” interest rates might never happen.

It’s not that Chairwoman Janet Yellen and company foresee the economic recovery petering out. Fed officials, in their newly released projections, still see growth picking up the rest of this year after a weak first quarter and the unemployment rate still falling.

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