The FED Does Nothing (Again...!)

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Aug 01 2024 | 00:11:17

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Show Notes

The Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave the cash rate unchanged yesterday, and it’s weird that the biggest financial news from Wednesday is that they did nothing at all, and did not committing to doing anything in future, despite the call from some to cut rates in a pre-emptive intervention to head off a recession. As always traders parsed every nook and cranny of the FOMC statement, while billions of dollars changed hands. Powell said decisions on monetary policy are a “very difficult judgment call,” and he laid out scenarios for everything from cutting several times this year to […]

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