Monetary Policy
While there are prescriptive upshots to this piece, this piece is meant to get at the core descriptive points about how monetary policy works. There is plenty of room to debate optimal policy and optimal macroeconomic objectives, but we should first be clear about what the Fed's approach
Core-Cast is our nowcasting model to track the Fed's preferred inflation gauges before and through their release date. The heatmaps below give a comprehensive view of how inflation components and themes are performing relative to what transpires when inflation is running at 2%. If you are interested in
Welcome to our State Space series. Here you will find how we’re thinking about the pathways and scenarios that could take us to critical economic states. We will never settle for "it's too unlikely." We try to reason backwards from the most important (tail-risk) scenarios,
Welcome to our State Space series. Here you will find how we’re thinking about the pathways and scenarios that could take us to critical economic states. We will never settle for "it's too unlikely." We try to reason backwards from the most important (tail-risk) scenarios,
We try our best not to "bash" the Fed gratuitously; we believe that strong public institutions are important for solving society's biggest problems. But the events over the past four days should not be sugar-coated: we have a substantial Fed failure on our hands. We have