tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713178645208582139.post5559861209448391403..comments2024-03-22T02:37:15.030-05:00Comments on Macro Musings Blog: The Fed is Trapped in a Rate Hike Talk CycleDavid Beckworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04577612979801459194noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713178645208582139.post-25738768884413012812016-07-23T08:48:56.756-05:002016-07-23T08:48:56.756-05:00Thank you for saying it David. Downward trend in b...Thank you for saying it David. Downward trend in bond yields is not the result of Fed tinkering. They went down, of course, after QE ended. What the market monetarists, or at least Scott Sumner and some others refuse to acknowledge is that there is massive demand for bonds as the new gold collateral for derivatives. Interest rate derivatives are the largest of the derivatives markets and bonds Gary Andersonhttp://www.talkmarkets.com/content/us-markets/everyone-said-treasury-bond-yields-would-go-up-after-qe-ended?post=73337&uid=4798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713178645208582139.post-37431430137005592682016-07-21T23:57:15.476-05:002016-07-21T23:57:15.476-05:00Excellent blogging.
The Fed continues to fight t...Excellent blogging. <br /><br />The Fed continues to fight the last war (or the one before that).<br /><br />Central banks today should ponder boosting economic growth, and avoiding the zero bound. Instead central bankers jibber-jabber about inflation and financial instability.<br /><br />But not promoting growth at this stage is promoting financial instability.<br /><br />Send in the helicoptersBenjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713178645208582139.post-87147752983266651442016-07-21T10:35:25.031-05:002016-07-21T10:35:25.031-05:00thx for the post. thx for the post. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713178645208582139.post-35182709826326171202016-07-21T06:36:50.554-05:002016-07-21T06:36:50.554-05:00There's really nothing to worry about. The rat...There's really nothing to worry about. The rate of money growth, after falling since January 2014, is now rising, possibly because of inflows from Europe and Japan, where interest rates have turned negative.<br /><br />See the graph on http://www.philipji.com/item/2016-07-09/the-fall-in-us-money-growth-reverses-after-two-years<br /><br />When the Fed raised rates in December 2015 a lot of Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16538860062019540619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713178645208582139.post-51996743957518372782016-07-21T05:42:15.697-05:002016-07-21T05:42:15.697-05:00Great post! Could you help me find out the answer ...Great post! Could you help me find out the answer to my paradox (in my blog) please?<br />Thanks<br />(you should probably add a "be" on the "They have to.." sentence)Ricardohttps://losinterest.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com