Tag: monetary policy

At last week’s FOMC meeting, Jerome Powell said, “We think financial conditions are weighing on the economy.” His comments seem sensible, given the following: The Fed...

Rather than trying to outsmart how the Fed’s policy meetings will affect the markets in the future, why not just let the markets tell...

The Fed added Quantitative Easing (QE) to its monetary policy toolbox in 2008. At the time, the financial system was imploding. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke...

In 2019, the Federal Reserve (Fed) cut interest rates and restarted QE despite a healthy economy. Today, inflation is higher than the Fed’s target,...

We wrote this four-part inflation series in response to the graph below, implying that prices are on the same inflation roller coaster ride as...

Jerome Powell and his colleagues endlessly reassert their “higher for longer” plan for interest rates. They aim to weaken economic growth, bringing inflation back...

A recent whitepaper by the Federal Reserve warns of “significantly lower profit growth and stock returns in the future.” In his article, End of an...

Most people think the nation’s money supply is the sole cause of inflation. They fail to realize inflation has two equal dance partners. The money...

An old saying cautions one to be careful of what one wishes for. Stock investors wishing for the Federal Reserve to pivot may want...

While headlines of bank failures and bailouts consume the media, few are contemplating the economic and financial aftershocks that will follow. Hockey great Wayne Gretzky...