June 29, 2020 | Daily JAM |
The advice "Don't fight the Fed" makes sense. If the Fed is flooding the financial markets with cash, then buy and follow along as the Fed makes money available to drive up asset prices. If the Fed is tightening, reducing the available supply of cash, then sell and...
February 1, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Once upon a time--as late as 2018--the consensus thinking in financial markets was that the Federal Reserve was but the first central bank to raise interest rates. Other central banks, most notably the European Central Bank, (but not the Bank of Japan, which may never...
January 30, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
Today the financial markets are in love with the idea that the Federal Reserve will raise rates no more than once in 2019--and more likely zero. And that the central bank will re-examine its policy of letting its balance sheet run off to the tune of $50 billion a...
April 16, 2014 | Uncategorized |
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