A recent opinion piece referenced a time in the not-too-distant past when money was “virtually free.” This was before Fed Chairman Powell supposedly brought “real world” to the cost of credit. Readers...
Tag: Paul Volcker
The Paul Volcker Narrative Imagines an Economy That Doesn’t Exist, and That Never Has
The Chinese government forbids foreign ownership of a broad range of Chinese businesses, including those that run websites. Despite this, despite endless rules meant to repel foreign capital migrating...
Bank Of Japan Should Study Paul Volcker Era
As Federal Reserve chairman from 1979 to 1987, Paul Volcker took the maxim that a central banker’s role is “take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going” to the extreme. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AF...
Here’s everything the Federal Reserve is expected to do Wednesday
Call it a sign of the times where a half percentage point interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve is considered looser monetary policy. Prior to this year, the Fed hadn’t boosted benchma...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell—Haunted By The Ghost Of Paul Volcker—Could Tank The Economy
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (right) is a big fan of the late Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman who ruthlessly crushed inflation in the early 1980s. L to R: Scott J Ferrell/Congressional Quarte...
Why the Federal Reserve won’t be so quick to ease up on its fight against inflation
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during a Fed Listens event in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Federal Reserve officials this week gave their clearest signal ...
Here’s What Happens To Stocks When The Fed Raises Rates By 100 Basis Points
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Brendan Smialowski/Pool via ASSOCIATED PRESS Stocks have continued to struggle for direction since a hotter-than-expected inflation report earlier this week dragged...
3 Stocks That Could Benefit From Powell Channeling Volcker
WASHINGTON – MAY 14: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker testifies before the Joint … [+] Economic Committee May 14, 2008 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The full committee met...
U.S. needs miracle to avoid recession, economist Stephen Roach warns
Negative economic growth in the year’s first half may be a foreshock to a much deeper downturn that could last into 2024. Stephen Roach, who served as chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, warns the ...
Fed rate hikes won’t curb inflation if spending stays high, paper says
John C. Williams, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Lael Brainard, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and Jerome Powell, chair of...
Powell warns of ‘some pain’ ahead as Fed fights to lower inflation
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivered a stern commitment Friday to halting inflation, warning that he expects the central bank to continue raising interest rates in a way that will cause &#...
Here’s Why The Fed’s Jackson Hole Symposium Isn’t A Big Deal For Investors
Topline While traders will be closely watching the Federal Reserve’s annual Jack Hole symposium for clues on future interest rate hikes, history shows that the event rarely moves markets in a big way ...
Morgan Stanley Investment Head Sees Hidden Inflation Threat In Dollars And Commodities
As investors wonder when inflation will begin to abate, Morgan Stanley CIO Lisa Shalett is looking … [+] at the relationship between dollars and commodities for the answer. Getty Images Investor...
Fed’s inflation battle to worsen market turmoil: Canaccord’s Dwyer
Stocks may go into a deeper tailspin. Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer predicts 1980s-era interest rate hikes will exacerbate the turmoil and make a recession seem increasingly more likely. “...
Finding Value In Dividend Dynamos Like Qualcomm And American Eagle As Inflation Rages Like It’s 1981
The nice thing about placing buy orders with a limit price is that your order does not get executed until the stock trades at your limit price. The bad thing, is that on a very bad day, the stock will...
Powell’s Plan To Exorcise Inflation Echoes Early 1980s Volcker Crusade
With few exceptions, stocks last week were savaged in the wake of comments made by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that all but assured a half-point rate hike at the Federal Open Market Committ...