Tag: interest rates

The End of Financial Repression

The Wall Street Journal argues that rising Treasury yields are not a sign that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is failing, but that his plan...

Pressure Rises to Raise Rates

You know that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has said his Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will deal with inflation. Now, members of that...

SILENT TREATMENT: Market Adjusts to Warsh’s Lack of Guidance

The news media and some market participants aren't happy with Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's refusal to give up much in the way of...

Economists Failed Attempt to Forecast the Macroeconomy

Economists have had an awful record of forecasting inflation, interest rates, gross domestic product, and other macro variables, writes Chris Edwards of the CATO...

Rising Interest Rates Clobber Investors as Stocks Collapse?

Utter nonsense. But can you spot the “charitable” word in my headline? The key word here is the word investors. Most financial market participants, whether professional or...

What Lies Ahead for Markets is Not Clear

In the December issue of Intelligence Report, Dick Young writes: The rigged (check with the Fed) financial markets are increasingly imperiled by the domination of...

Music Video: Way Back Home

The Fed would do us all a whole lot of good by setting a proper course on interest rate increases. Instead it continues to...

Are You in the Top 1%?

The Cato Institute’s Alan Reynolds in “Why Piketty’s Wealth Data Are Worthless” points out that in Thomas Piketty’s book, the wealth share of the...

Tiny Bubbles

Imagine outgoing Chairman Ben Bernanke joyfully wrapping things up at the Fed while humming “tiny bubbles make me feel happy” from Don Ho’s song...

Was the Fed a Good Idea?

The Cato Institute's upcoming monetary conference will open your eyes. WAS THE FED A GOOD IDEA? — will bring together some of the world’s leading...

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