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If you have nothing left, it can sound like a winning argument, but you have to really try hard enough. In October 2015, with another false dawn dawning on the public, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote and op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal . As had become his habit...

The 10-year Treasury rate has fallen below 2.0% for the first time since November 2016, blowing through the bearish reasons to "short" bonds at the last "blow-off" top. As I have outlined in many of my past research notes, the driving factors behind US Treasury rates are credit risk, ...

In order for rate cuts to be insurance for a boom to continue, there first has to be a boom able to be continued. The FOMC meeting yesterday didn't directly kill the idea, but that's actually what's coming up in the latest projections. This is why there's been so much attention focused on in...

A version of this piece originally appeared in the Financial Times on 19th June, 2019. Central banks around the world are pivoting toward easier monetary policy. In some countries, this means rates are falling below previous record lows, and in the U.S., the Federal Reserve has pause...

Wednesday's FOMC statement and Fed Chair Powell's press conference may have satisfied those looking for US rate cuts later in 2019. However, we see in both the statement and the press conference an uncharacteristic reluctance to react pre-emptively. This is despite a lowering of the central pr...

By James Knightley The Fed has opened the door to rate cuts, but it may not be as aggressive as the market expects. For now, we're sticking to our recently revised forecast for rate cuts in September and December, but if the data deteriorates and President Trump and President Xi's mee...

By Collin Martin The Federal Open Market Committee ((FOMC)) - the Federal Reserve's policymaking arm - held its target range steady on Wednesday, maintaining the 2.25% to 2.5% target range for the Federal Funds rate. This was widely expected by the markets. The next move by the Fed is li...

Today's Federal Open Market Committee ((FOMC)) meeting was decisively and deliberately dovish. This was about as far as the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) could have gone without actually cutting interest rates at the meeting's conclusion. In the statement accompanying the meeting, the com...

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Updated for imminent rate cuts and latest FOMC statement (June 19) Rate cuts will be insurance against whatever "trade wars" will throw at the global economy. That's the current line from monetary officials in the US, anyway. The real question to ask is, how would they know? Starting with ...