From NFTRH 477: Bring on FOMC! Aside from providing a potential exclamation point to the gold sector correction, this week’s (Dec. 13th) rate hike will serve as Janet Yellen’s last…
Even as I speculate in the financial markets along with all the other casino patrons, this remains one of my favorite charts, because it shows what my unused cash has…
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in July indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising moderately so far…
So these people are sitting around this table today. This is so important that the CME Group keeps a countdown going by which we can wait with baited breath. They…
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen even as growth in economic activity slowed. Job gains were…
The FOMC sat on its hands to no one's surprise but the bit that I guess is supposed to get people on tenterhooks is this... Against this backdrop, the Committee…
Where once Alan Greenspan was vilified for dropping interest rates too low for too long and thereby inflating a credit bubble (before his bouncing baby bubble forced him to try…
Not enough inflation. That's what the Fed is saying yet again. FOMC Statement "Inflation has continued to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in…
What, are you kidding me? I mean, sure, it's a pain in the ass listening to Bullard this, Yellen that, Rosengren this, Fisher that, Fischer this, Evans that... What ever…
As anticipated, August was a month full of Fed jawboning because it was a month without an FOMC meeting. I knew they would fill the void with an expectations management…
Why the tough talk out of one side of her mouth and 'other policy tools' language out of the other (ref. Yellen Lays Out Tools... )? Oh, I don't know. …
Approximately 15 seconds after FOMC whispered its latest sweet nothings to the asset markets it is propping, I posted the statement at Biiwii. In it they conceded that the economy…
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April indicates that the pace of improvement in the labor market has slowed while growth in economic activity appears to have picked up. Although the unemployment rate has declined, job gains have diminished. Growth in household spending has strengthened. Since the beginning of the year, the housing sector has continued to improve and the drag from net exports appears to have lessened, but business fixed investment has been soft. Inflation has continued to run below the Committee’s 2 percent longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and in prices of non-energy imports. Market-based measures of inflation compensation declined; most survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance, in recent months.
[edit] Ah, she just mentioned the high "debt to GDP levels" in the Q&A. Thank you sir! Point made. She just jawboned QE 4, which is why I decided to…