Before I start my first-ever crypto commentary, a couple of housekeeping notes are in order. First, on Dec 7th in New York City I will be hosting a fireside chat with Niall Ferguson. As many readers will remember, Niall and I held a virtual fireside chat in Q1 2022...
Back on 1-Nov-22, just before the last FOMC meeting, I penned the following lines at the end of a note entitled "The Pivot and Financial Instability”: ...we are likely coming in toward the final stages of this tightening move. After this week, there will have been 400...
It's been quite a while since the message in an FOMC statement stood in such sharp contrast to the tone of a press conference. In fact, I cannot remember a time when the dichotomy was greater. One can only surmise that Jay's well-advertised Volckeresque vision for...
Conventional wisdom suggests that in a typical tightening cycle the Fed raises rates until something breaks. Then, the storyline goes, a policy pivot begins — reluctantly at first, but eventually with a whole lot of vigor. The timing and market source of this...
My last two notes have centered around the concept that the short-term pain of aggressive Fed tightening is exactly the type of tough love that is required to sustain a structurally positive long-run US growth outlook. Without such a stern policy response to this...
My last two notes have centered around the concept that the short-term pain of aggressive Fed tightening is exactly the type of tough love that is required to sustain a structurally positive long-run US growth outlook. Without such a stern policy response to this unfortunate sequence of inflationary negative supply shocks, longer-term inflation expectations would surely become […]
