Fed Minutes
The Fed announced their plans today to “only invert the Yield Curve somewhat,” rather than the deeper and more extensive inversions...
A World of (mostly) Flattening Yield Curves
Lately, we’ve been discussing the Yield Curve, its flattening and inversion and how its different this time (not). This has...
Gold & The Wizard of Oz
Terrifically amusing take on Gold, via RaJa’s Jeff Saut: "We thought a lot about gold over the holiday as we watched “The...
2 Studies on the Flattening Yield Curve
A reader asked about prior studies on a flattening or inverting yield curve, wondering "what have they concluded?" Quite...
Explaining Yield Curve Inversions
The Yield Curve briefly inverted — twice — Monday. As we noted yesterday, the deeper and longer a curve remains inverted, the...
Inverted Yield Curve: Its different this time (not)
The yield curve, as measured by the ratio between the 10 and 2 year treasuries, is merely a few ticks away from inverting. This is...
Federal Reserve Chairman George Costanza
Barron’s Alan Abelson’s Christmas wish list has a few gifts for the outgoing and incoming Federal Reserve Chairmen: "To...
Economists React to Fed
WSJ The Federal Reserve, as expected raised interest rates for the 13th consecutive time Tuesday, lifting the federal-funds rate by...
PARSING THE FED
WSJ: THE FED’S STATEMENTS reflect how the members of the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee perceive the economy....
What Data is the Fed Watching?
It is a fait accompli that today’s Fed meeting will raise rates a quarter point. The more important question is “How many more...