Tag: FOMC rate decision

What Does the Fed Say?

Another storm in a teacup, no rate hike, more promises about raising rates down the line – after all the dot plot showed most members still think a rate hike is in the cards in 2015 – and another anticlimax…

Are U.S. Savings Rates About To Rise?

personal saving and interest rate U.S

On the eve of the FOMC’s rate hike, one could also ask how a potential higher interest rate affects the U.S. savings rate. After all, the basic idea we are all thought in econ101 is that when interest rates go…

Yellen and the Markets’ Irrational Exuberance

yields and snp500

The recent comments Janet Yellen about the high valuation of equities may have partly contributed to the cool down in the stock market today. But is the market experiencing irrational exuberance? Are equities overvalued? Yellen said today that “I would…