The Very Best People at the Fed
Click the chimp! (Jerome Powell is chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.) Only the very best people at the Fed! Continue Reading →
Click the chimp! (Jerome Powell is chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.) Only the very best people at the Fed! Continue Reading →
“Although the report was published as a report of the Board of Governors, it was the product of one Board Member, and was not reviewed …” Continue Reading →
The Fed has spoken. The new target rate for the Federal Funds rate will gradually rise to between 0.25 and 0.50 percent. I wrote extensively about this yesterday. It will be interesting to see whether the folks at the Board of Governors can make this rate increase stick. Continue Reading →
It happens that the Fed critics are exactly right. While interest rates on debt held by those in the bottom 80% may be slightly cheaper, much of that debt is probably credit cards. Those interest rates are still way, way above 1%. Continue Reading →