I wanted to weigh in on the exchange between Kash Mansori at Angry Bear and Dave Altig at Macroblog.
Category Archives: Federal Reserve
Soaring commodity prices
Is U.S. monetary policy behind the surge in commodity prices?
What’s the Fed waiting for?
The Fed is likely to stop raising rates soon. What will be the final signal that enough is enough?
2005: the oil shock that didn’t bite?
All but one of the recessions in the United States since World War II have been preceded by a dramatic increase in oil prices. Did we escape unscathed in 2005?
Who’s afraid of the big bad yield curve?
Lots of talk this week of an inverted yield curve, such as
Macroblog, Big Picture,
Economist’s View,
Hypothetical Bias, and Mises Economics Blog. What’s the big deal?
The real yield curve
Economist’s View reported last week on a letter from Alan Greenspan that addressed some questions about monetary policy posed for the Fed Chair by Representative Jim Saxton (R-NJ). I was particularly interested in Greenspan’s explanation of why he is not concerned about the seemingly bearish connotations of the slope of the yield curve.
The gold standard and the Great Depression
How the gold standard contributed to the Great Depression.
Facing the latest economic data
Here are a few thoughts about some of the economic news that’s been coming in over the last few weeks.
Inverted yield curve edges closer
If you haven’t been worrying about the possibility of an inverted yield curve, now might be a good time to start.
Hedge fund risk
Psst– want to earn a 41% annual return over a decade? Then read on.