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Reminder: Federal Reserve policymakers were actively trading stocks in 2020-2021 before selling in September-October 2021

June 14, 2022 12:25 am

by FarrisAT Since we here are focused on equity performance and are (mostly) hoping the value of our investments rise, I’d like to remind everyone that the Federal Reserve had multiple members actively trading equities while formulating extremely bullish policies …

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Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks, restrict trading following controversy

October 21, 2021 4:13 pm

The Federal Reserve announced sweeping new rules for its top officials Thursday, banning trading in individual stocks and bonds. Those new rules come on the heels of a swelling ethics controversy over whether central bank officials should be able to …

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Russia Nudges Indian Policymakers To Move Away From The US Dollar

December 5, 2018 9:49 am

by Zia Haq via the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Russia nudges Indian policymakers to move away from the dollar To counter US President Donald Trump’s economic sanctions, snap trade wars and the dollar’s dominance in world trade, Russia is nudging Indian …

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When Will Policymakers Admit that Economics Isn’t a Hard Science?

June 26, 2018 5:09 pm

BY PATRICK WATSON Those who call economics “the dismal science” are half right. It is definitely not a hard science like physics or chemistry. It has nothing like Isaac Newton’s “laws.” Had Newton been an economist, he might have said gravity …

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