Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 7 of 13 At the same time, I am fully aware that the FOMC must be careful to not undermine that recuperative process. Here, of course, I refer to the potential harm to the consumer and the business and future trading software financial sectors alike by unwittingly allowing the perception to take hold that, as
Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 10 of 13 There was a time, back when I was an outside observer of the Federal Reserve, when commodity future option trading the Fed practiced what some have dubbed opportunistic disinflation. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the FOMC recognized that while recessions sometimes occur, they could not be anticipated
Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 9 of 13 Recent readings on inflation have not been encouraging. The rate of increase in the core personal consumption expenditures price index, or core PCE that is, what people buy, except food and energy was 2.2 percent over the 12 months ending in January. Yet, its headline counterpart commodity index
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