Fed gives itself a pat on the back

As discussed last week, the FOMC reduced the Fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 1.50%-1.75%. Since then it seems that Fed officials have been messaging to the market that they have the economy exactly where they want it. A pat on the back perhaps?

I had previously pointed out that the Fed was prepared to cut rates not just in reaction to economic difficulties, but in anticipation of them as well (a questionable mandate, in my view, given economists' dubious record of predicting, well, anyt...

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