The Current Fed Rate Hike Campaign Is Totally Unprecedented

Jon Economy, Fiscal Policies, Market Commentary, Real Estate

While the last two Fed rate hike decisions were largely expected, there are a lot of worrying details about this current Fed tightening cycle that are going unnoticed…
Three factors in particular make this rate hike environment so unprecedented:
The large amounts of quantitative easing (QE) after the housing bubble burst in 2008 The unparalleled amount of transparency required by the Fed The current U. S. economic conditions Yet the markets don’t seem affected by the unknown aspect of the Fed policy at the moment, even though this policy could have serious repercussions for investors…

This post was published at Wall Street Examiner by Ashley Moore ‘ April 13, 2017.