U.S. unlikely to experience negative interest rates
Story updated at 10:30 a.m.: The U.S. is unlikely to experience negative interest rates, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President and CEO James Bullard said at the UC Santa Barbara Economic Summit at the Granada Theater on May 5. He said U.S. labor market strength justifies the Fed’s vision of gradually rising rates and Read More →
Read More →2016 expected to be good year for real estate in Tri-Counties
Despite the slight increase of interest rates and the drought’s persistence, real estate brokers are bullish on 2016. The Federal Reserve’s decision to gradually raise interest rates throughout 2016 will not likely have a short-term impact on development and real estate activity, industry sources told the Business Times. And while the city of Pismo Beach Read More →
Read More →Fed rate increase should help take risk out of financial markets
The Federal Reserve’s decision to slowly begin the process of normalizing interest rates may not have all that much to do with the economy or inflation. The economy isn’t really overheated and any threat of inflation remains far off in the future. Parsing the Fedspeak of the Dec. 16 announcement that regulators are “reasonably confident” Read More →
Read More →Measure of business inventory could dictate future of interest rates
NEW YORK — An often-overlooked measure of business inventories may hold a powerful clue to the future direction of interest rates, an influential Federal Reserve official said Oct. 9. Dennis Lockhard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, told a group of business journalists that his staff’s analysis of third quarter GDP has reported Read More →
Read More →Op/ed: Blaming QE for alien invasions and everything else
An interesting conjecture shows some evidence that monetary policy changes can disturb the financial system.
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