Barron’s: Investors are calling the Federal Reserve’s bluff. “We don’t believe you,” the futures market is effectively telling the Fed

https://www.barrons.com/articles/stock-market-hawkish-fed-51624052659 The Federal Open Market Committee’s latest policy communications raised more questions than answers. Perhaps the biggest one: Can the Fed ever really raise interest rates? ​ At face value, and with a big dose of relativity, this past week’s …

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Fed Reserve Chair Powell: Cryptocurrencies Not Convenient for Payment Due to Swings in Value, Central Bank CryptoCurrency May Be Coming

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1395441828430745602 The Fed this summer will take another step ahead in developing a digital currency The Federal Reserve will release a research paper this summer that explores a move to a central bank digital currency. The moves of multiple countries, …

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Federal Reserve’s Bizarre Mortgage-backed Securities (MBS) Purchase Strategy With Ultra-low Available Housing Inventory (Housing Bubble Preservation?)

by confoundedinterest17 Chairman Powell, tell me why The Federal Reserve is buying so much agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) while there is a dearth of available housing inventory? Especially when home prices are growing at 12.2% year-over-year? Mortgage rates were already falling starting …

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