The housing market shows that the tool the Fed is using to reduce inflation is doing just the opposite, says the former White House adviser.

The housing market shows that the tool the Fed is using to reduce inflation is doing just the opposite, says the former White House adviser.

The Federal Reserve’s rate hikes have helped slow overall prices, but they’re also keeping inflation steady because of how home ownership costs factor into key metrics, according to housing expert Jim Parrott and Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. In one Washington Post published on Thursday, they called on the Fed to declare victory … Read more

Three reasons why US financial markets are sailing through a prolonged Fed hold-up

Three reasons why US financial markets are sailing through a prolonged Fed hold-up

(Bloomberg) — More than two years after the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive monetary tightening in four decades, the big surprise is that the world hasn’t fallen. Most Read by Bloomberg While US interest rates at 23-year highs are causing pain, there’s nothing like the systemic problems that so often derailed expansions in the past. The … Read more