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by | Apr 12, 2023

I have heard some people say that the Federal Reserve has a credibility problem. The agency missed the biggest inflation spike since the 1980s, was slow to start rolling back pandemic policies, and failed to spot the risks that some…

by | Apr 11, 2023

Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis By Jeanna Smialek Alfred A. Knopf, 374 pages, $30 The Federal Reserve System, the United States central banking system, was established in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Act, which…

by | Mar 27, 2023

Moral hazard occurs when an agreement that people make to act in concert for their mutual benefit results in an incentive for one of them to act immorally. The classic case is insurance. When an insurance company contracts with a…

by | Mar 13, 2023

The nation needs the Congressional investigations, but they are, I caution again, predictably un-strategic, even awkward. Republicans stupidly sold the hearings as conclusive (thus inorganic), accordingly seen as partisan payback, not transparent good government. Lacking choreography, they appeal mainly to…

by | Feb 22, 2023

Don’t be confused by the latest numbers. Smart forecasters still predict a deep recession. Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein at First Trust Portfolios have been reliable guides over recent decades. They expressed some hope for a correction over the last…

by | Feb 2, 2023

The Federal Reserve raised its funds rate on Wednesday by a quarter percent. The 4.5–4.75 percent rate amounts to the highest in 15 years. Despite this, and Wednesday’s hike becoming the eighth consecutive one, Chairman Jerome Powell explained that “we…

by | Dec 28, 2022

In the final week of 2022, we Americans can foresee two significant economic risks in 2023. The first one is a probability that the Federal Reserve will get weak-kneed and stop raising interest rates before inflation is truly under control….

by | Dec 23, 2022

While Americans were doomscrolling through election results on the morning of November 9, something more consequential than the Democrats’ potentially holding the Senate was unfolding: an ominous round of tech layoffs. According to internal documents, Meta (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is…

by | Dec 13, 2022

The difference between Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange and Uncle Sam’s legal tender appears one of degree and not of kind. Investors present at the creation of FTX now possess nothing or next to nothing of their original investments. The same…

by | Oct 26, 2022

Debate now rages about whether the Federal Reserve should continue to raise interest rates to tame inflation or slow down these hikes and see what happens. This is not the first debate we’ve had recently about inflation and Fed actions….

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