Federal Reserve

From “mises.org” At its September 2024 meeting, the Fed’s FOMC cut the target federal funds rate by a historically large 50 basis points and then justified this cut on the grounds that “The Committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation […]

This article comes from “naturalnews.com” The Federal Reserve, once the bedrock of American financial stability, is now under fire for what critics are calling a reckless and unsustainable gamble with taxpayer money. A former World Bank president has sounded the alarm, revealing that the Fed has lost over a trillion dollars—and counting—turning it into what he

From “mises.org” Central to any good investor’s decision-making process is determining the degree to which the target of investment is “robust to the downside.” Can the investment maintain its value—or even continue to provide sufficient return on capital—in the event of a pullback in the broader economy or a specific sector? Warren Buffett has aptly

From “mises.org” Federal Reserve technocrats like to use a variety of slogans and buzzwords designed to make the Federal Reserve look like it’s an apolitical, “scientific” institution guided only by a quest for sound management of the economy. Specifically, nearly every time Fed chairman Jerome Powell makes an appearance—whether it’s the usual FOMC press conference,