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  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    News in-depthMonetary policy
    Central banks seek interest rate sweet spot in inflation fight

    Getting the balance between growth and inflation just right is fraught with difficulty

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Powell says Fed will keep tightening until inflation has been tamed

    US central bank ‘won’t hesitate at all’ to lift rates above ‘neutral’ if needed to control rising prices, chair says

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Rana Foroohar
    Let the Fed put money where it is really needed

    Inflation pressures and asset bubbles are a sign that the central bank has been distracted from its core mission

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    US economy
    Blankfein warns of ‘very, very high risk’ of US recession

    Former Goldman Sachs chief says companies and consumers should ‘be prepared’

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Equities
    Global stocks record longest weekly losing streak since 2008 crisis

    Sixth straight decline in FTSE All-World index reflects fear of inflation followed by recession

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    FT Swamp Notes
    Are we heading for another Occupy Wall Street moment? Premium content

    Debt-ridden young people face the prospect of duking it out with the wealthy for a shrinking piece of the pie

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Stablecoins aren’t so stable after all

    Heavy selling breaks stablecoin Tether’s link to the US dollar

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Jay Powell warns that taming US inflation will cause ‘some pain’

    Risk of triggering recession may depend on factors outside Federal Reserve’s control, warns chair

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    US Inflation
    US inflation stays at 40-year high, defying expectations of bigger drop

    CPI increase of 8.3% in April includes rise in core inflation and prompts fall in equities

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    Chris Hughes
    An American CBDC is not the way to fight China’s financial might

    Introducing a Fed-backed digital currency will not be the game-changer many think

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    FT AlphavilleNick Peterson
    Quantitative troubles

    The Fed is hot for QT, but the Bank of England seems weirdly wary

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Credit markets shudder Premium content

    The risks are hard to measure, until something breaks

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    Lisa Cook becomes first black woman to serve on Fed board

    Economics professor and former Obama adviser confirmed by US Senate with Democratic support

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    US economy
    Biden reinforces support for Fed’s effort to tame inflation

    US president touts central bank’s ‘primary role’ in tackling soaring prices and gives green light for rate rises

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Martin Wolf
    A soft landing in the US is possible but unlikely

    It is optimistic to think that a significant recession will not be needed to curb inflation, as is the belief that one can be avoided

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Markets InsightRichard Bernstein
    You are what your real fed funds rate says you are

    Timid US central bank is still very far from hawkish with policy benchmark deep in negative territory after taking into account inflation

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    What is a ‘softish’ landing? Premium content

    And El Salvador’s bitcoin debacle

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Fed warns sharp rise in interest rates poses risk to US economy

    US central bank warns of ‘negative feedback loop’ if market liquidity deteriorates

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Markets InsightEdward Yardeni
    Investors are too bearish about the US stock market

    S&P 500 still likely to hit record territory next year, even after a correction

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    US Treasury bonds
    The Fed has changed its message, but not the way you think

    And markets don’t like it.

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    News in-depthPrivate equity
    Private equity titans dance until the music stops under the California sun

    Apollo and peers are warning that markets have further to fall as recession clouds gather

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    US equities
    Buckle up

    The ‘what happened, why it happened and what it means’ post

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    The Long ViewJohn Plender
    Sanity appears to be returning to central bank policymaking

    Years of overblown asset prices and mispricing of risk may be giving way to more normal conditions

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    What just happened?

    There is precious little logic left in the market

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Equities
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    Wage-price spirals; Kentucky Derby; Inland Empire and active versus passive.

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