While a rate cut next week is nearly certain, the Fed should hold out against premature and political pressures to do more.
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Drawing A New Line On Interest Rates
Tag Archives: Interest Rates
Borrow My Money – Please!
In Denmark, at least one bank pays customers to take out mortgages. What once seemed impossible is becoming the new normal.
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Can The Fed Bend Without Bowing?
Trump wants the Fed to cut rates. The Fed may do so without necessarily bowing to presidential pressure.
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Is The Fed Still Independent?
In word and deed, if reports are true about planned nominees, Trump pays little heed to the Fed’s vital independence.
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Stock Market Turbulence
When stocks encounter turbulence, investors should fasten seat belts – not jump out of the plane.
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The Quagmire Of Universal Life Insurance
As universal life policies start to sink, unfortunate policyholders are apt to be pulled under.
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The Dreaded Inverted Yield Curve
Who’s afraid of the big bad bond market standing on its head? Not the chief of the New York Fed.
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Trumping The Fed
As breaches of presidential protocol go, Trump’s jawing at the Federal Reserve is just another day at the Oval Office.
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Is Our Economy Too Hot?
How can we distinguish an economy that is chugging along from one that is overheating?
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The End Of The War On Savers
The Fed’s newly tolerant inflation stance is a declaration of victory in its long war on savers.
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