Month: December 2018

Shedding light on Powell’s “just below neutral” and the hullabaloo about the Fed suddenly turning “dovish.”

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter After the hullabaloo on Wall Street and in the media about the comments made by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Vice Chairman Richard Clarida this week, the Fed released the minutes of the FOMC meeting on November 7-8. The WOLF STREET Fed hawk-o-meter checks the minutes for signs that the Fed believes the economy … Read more

The Business Value of the Blockchain

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via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Blockchain can be an elusive concept. Its abstract nature leaves many wondering if this emerging technology is the global catalyst evangelists claim it to be. But blockchain is more of a tool than a catalyst – not a one-size-fits-all, but a new foundation … Read more