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By Sonal Desai, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income While the US Federal Reserve (Fed) decided to leave interest rates unchanged at its January policy meeting, the market seems to be thinking the Fed may press pause for an extended per...

The fact that the US Fed has determined that real rates above 0.5% are a threat to both economic growth and 2% inflation suggests the economy is not "in a good place" but extremely fragile. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said in prepared remarks that the central bank would use its monetary poli...

On Wednesday, the US Treasury announced its latest plans for issuing new debt. The new announcement indicated that the Treasury Department will issue another record-breaking amount of debt. “The federal budget shortfall is set to swell, driven by tax cuts, spending increases and an...

By Collin Martin As expected, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept its key short-term interest rate steady, maintaining the 2.25% to 2.5% target range for the Federal Funds rate.¹ The decision was unanimous. However, although the rate was left unchanged, updates to the Federal Open...

By John Pattullo John Pattullo, Co-Head of Strategic Fixed Income, discusses the range of factors he believes indicate that current inflation is more cyclical than structural. Transcript J ohn Pattullo : 2018 was really a reflationary year driven by Chinese expansion a couple of...

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Christine McDaniel is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and was previously the deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department and senior trade economist in the White House. Christine is a returning guest to Macro Musings and joins the show today to talk about recent...

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Leading into Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee ((FOMC)) decision, Chair Jerome Powell and a host of regional Federal Reserve (the Fed) bank presidents had unanimously expressed support for a pause in the Fed's tightening cycle. Even perma-hawk Esther George, from the Federal Reserve Ba...

The Fed holds interest rates steady and signals patience on future interest rate hikes. Anthony Okolie talks with James Marple , Senior Economist , Read more ...