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By Breakingviews The death in December of Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve and famed inflation fighter, is a reminder that galloping price increases used to be a problem. In recent years, though, inflation has largely gone missing. Its return in 2020 would be an un...
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The economic calendar features the employment situation report at week’s end with a preview from the ADP on Wednesday. In my early WTWA preparation I expected some reallocation action by those returning from vacation, and a focus on employment as a key economic read. I still believe tha...
"And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call…" - Jefferson Airplane One of the most important bankruptcy attorneys in the United States lives in Fort Lauderdale. I am proud that he is a friend of min...
The year 2019 should be remembered as the year of repo. In finance, what happened in September was the most memorable occurrence of the last few years. Rate cuts were a strong contender, the first in over a decade, as was overseas turmoil. Both of those, however, stemmed from the same thing be...
By Dan Crawford Last week Kevin Drum had the following inquiry : [H]ow is it that wages can go up but overall inflation remains so subdued? That seems to be the real disconnect here. During the dotcom boom, wages went up but inflation remained around 3 percent. During the housing ...
Originally published December 16, 2019 Tweaks to current standing repo facility proposals would be an important step toward helping Fed gain more control over its balance sheet. George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and is...
Originally published on December 23, 2019 The path to capital market stability must include a combination of smarter regulations and strategic liquidity provisions from the Fed. Josh Galper is the Managing Principal of Finadium, an independent consultancy in capital markets based out ...
Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on December 25, 2019. [This post is an excerpt from a recent TSI commentary] Over the past three months, the year-over-year rate of growth in US True Money Supply ((TMS)), a.k.a. the US monetary inflation rate, has jumped from a...
The title quote is from Tad Rivelle, Chief Investment Officer of TCW (Los Angeles-based fixed-income management company), who manages one of the largest actively managed bond funds. He goes on to comment about the implications of the negative rate policy that has been implemented by Japan and ...