US Federal Reserve

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

Janet Yellen this week cast doubt on the Fed's announced plan to continue Fed rate hikes and reverse its years of "unconventional" monetary policy. 

“My colleagues and I may have misjudged the strength of the labor market,” Yellen announced on Tuesday, adding that they'd also misjudged "the degree to which longer-run inflation expectations are consistent with our inflation objective, or even the fundamental forces driving inflation."

 

Editor Mark O'Byrne

Authored bvy Daniel Nevins via FFWiley.com,

As reported earlier this morning by the Wall Street Journal, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin met with Kevin Warsh yesterday to discuss the potential vacancy at the Fed next February.

Warsh already has central banking experience, having sat on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) from February 2006 until March 2011.

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The US Economy Is Failing

Paul Craig Roberts

Do the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page editors read their own newspaper?

Back in mid-July, Bank of America chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett wrote "The Most Dangerous Moment For Markets Will Come In 3 Or 4 Months" in which he warned that "further upside in risk assets will create problems later in the year" and concluded that "ultimately, we believe the extremely strong performance by equities and bonds in H1 is very unlikely to be repeated in H2" because "monetary policy will have to tighten to raise volatility, reduce Wall St inflation, and reduce inequality.