{"id":45522,"date":"2019-04-20T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45522"},"modified":"2019-04-20T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:44:37","slug":"weekly-commentary-full-capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45522","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Commentary: Full Capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/weekly-commentary-full-capitulation.html\">Weekly Commentary: Full Capitulation<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 16 \u2013 Bloomberg (Rich Miller and Craig Torres): \u201cFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have made an important shift in their strategy for dealing with inflation in a prelude to what could be a more radical change next year. The central bank has backed off the interest-rate hikes it had been delivering to avoid a potentially dangerous rise in inflation that economic theory says could result from the hot jobs market. Instead, Powell &amp; Co. have put policy on hold until sub-par inflation rises convincingly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 15 \u2013 CNBC (Thomas Franck): \u201cChicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Monday that he\u2019d be comfortable leaving interest rates alone until autumn 2020 to help ensure sustained inflation in the U.S. \u2018I can see the funds rate being flat and unchanged into the fall of 2020. For me, that\u2019s to help support the inflation outlook and make sure it\u2019s sustainable,\u2019 Evans told CNBC\u2019s Steve Liesman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 15 \u2013 Reuters (Trevor Hunnicutt): \u201cThe U.S. Federal Reserve should embrace inflation above its target half the time and consider cutting rates if prices do not rise as fast as expected, a top policymaker at the central bank said\u2026 \u2018While policy has been successful in achieving our maximum employment mandate, it has been less successful with regard to our inflation objective,\u2019 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said\u2026 \u2018To fix this problem, I think the Fed must be willing to embrace inflation modestly above 2% 50% of the time. Indeed, I would communicate comfort with core inflation rates of 2-1\/2%, as long as there is no obvious upward momentum and the path back toward 2% can be well managed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s stunning how dramatically the Fed\u2019s perspective has shifted since the fourth quarter. There\u2019s now a chorus of Fed governors and Federal Reserve Bank Presidents calling for the central bank to accommodate higher inflation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Commentary: Full Capitulation April 16 \u2013 Bloomberg (Rich Miller and Craig Torres): \u201cFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have made an important shift in their strategy for dealing with inflation in a prelude to what could be a more radical change next year. 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