Tag: strong dollar

• What’s the Point, Powell?

  

  Thoughts of a Liberal Arts Graduate on the Fed, interest rates, inflation, demographics, and more The entire point of low interest rates was to shift consumers up the risk ladder. Lower potential returns in lower risk baskets purposefully pushed investors toward riskier options; pushed them to take more risk, for the same reward. The Fed…

  Thomas Schleusener

  September 27, 2022

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  dollar, fed, federal reserve, financial crisis, interest rates, rates, s&p 500, strong dollar, volatility