Tag: yield curve dynamics

• Trouble in Yellen-Land

  

  Bond markets and the Fed aren’t making sense. The Fed (“Yellen”) rose the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) last Wednesday, June 12th to a range of 1.00% to 1.25%. The Fed has two mandates: (1) to keep prices stable (i.e. keep inflation around 2%) and (2) to minimize unemployment. In other words, stabilize the economy by cooling…

  Thomas Schleusener

  June 26, 2017

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  bond markets, bonds, equities, fed, fed funds rate, ffr, gdp growth, global growth, inflation, Janet Yellen, liquidity, normalization, Yellen, yield curve, yield curve dynamics