All Eyes on the Fed
The latest round of debate on what the Fed might do down the road.
Read more...Category Archives: Federal Reserve
The Media Endlessly Talks About Interest Rates—Are They Even an Effective Economic Tool at This Point?
Interest rates are a poor substitute for fiscal spending and as we’ve seen, over-reliance on monetary policy produces speculative booms and busts. More and more people recognize this formula isn’t working, but what will it take to change course?
Read more...Fed Official: Climate Change is an ‘International Market Failure’
A report from the U.S. central bank cautions that rising temperatures and extreme storms could eventually trigger a financial collapse.
Read more...Can the US Treasury Run Out of Money When the US Government Can’t?
Debunking some arguments against MMT by explaining why the US Treasury can’t run out of money.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Survival of the Richest, The March of Inequality
A look at the history of the rise in inequality in the US.
Read more...Wolf Richter: My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Ticks Down, Still Red-Lines. In Passing, Fed Plants Seed for Removing “Patient”
Not surprisingly, given economic weakness in Europe and China plus Trump trade war saber-rattling, the Fed seems less gung ho about the health of the economy than it was last summer.
Read more...The Natural Rate of Interest Is Anything But
Central bankers pursue a “neutral” rate that doesn’t exist.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Markets Are in a Tizzy. So What Will the Fed Do?
What will the Fed do next, now that investors have finally started to react to its tightening of monetary policy, after years of somnolent money-making?
Read more...IMF, Warren Sound Alarm on Leveraged Lending
Concerns are building over the extent of leveraged lending, among regulators and politicians and the private sector alike. Some, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren see troubling signs that recall risks that triggered the Great Financial Crisis.
Read more...J.D. Alt: Treasury Bonds Are Future Dollars
Clearing up fundamental misconceptions about US Treasury bond issuance.
Read more...As the Fed Tightens, Where Will the Credit Crunch Pinch First?
Who will feel the pain first in the coming credit squeeze?
Read more...Panicked Market Close Wednesday, Rout Continues Overseas, With Some Stabilization in Europe; What Will Thursday Bring? Updated: Investors Want Their Fed Put
Mr. Market was very edgy yesterday. Will he recover his chipper mood today or fall into a deeper funk?
Read more...The Effectiveness of Large-Scale Asset Purchases
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Read more...Marshall Auerback: A Full Employment Economy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.
Read more...The Bank of International Settlement’s Claudio Borio, Who Warned About the Crisis, Says the World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick
BIS chief economist Claudio Borio warns that central bankers have overdone the liquidity party, and investors are not being paid enough to take ris
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