Everything You Need to Know About The Fed Report
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A wild FOMC meeting triggered by a rejiggering of the dots. Those don't really matter except as insight into how confused policymakers have become. Why are they confused? Rate hikes don't appear to be working, so they are having a hard time deciding what should happen next. Markets aren't so conflicted, only about the likeliest path for ST rates.  Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis FOMC March 2024 Policy Statementhttps://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/monetary20240320a1.pdf FOMC March 2024 Summary of Economic Projectionshttps://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcprojtabl20240320.pdf CSPAN: President Biden Campaign Remarks March 8, 2024https://www.c-span.org/video/?534118-1/president-biden-delivers-campaign-remarks-philadelphia https://www.eurodollar.universityTwitter: https://twitter.com/JeffSnider_EDU
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