In her remarks at the recent Jackson Hole conference on monetary policy, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen praised the new financial regulations enacted during the Obama Administration. Most observers interpreted Yellen as repudiating the current efforts in the Trump Administration to roll back at least some of the new constraints on banks. Financial publications ran […]

The Federal Reserve is expected to reiterate to the Congressional committee its plan to begin unwinding its multi-trillion bond buying programs as early as this September. Without a doubt this is a big deal. It is so big that it is inconceivable to think that this process will have no effect on financial markets. Our […]