3 Reasons Fed Tightening Isn't Walloping U.S. Financial Markets

Although U.S. interest rates are sitting at 23-year highs, the pockets of pain they are causing are nothing like the systemic problems that so often wrecked expansions in the past.

By Craig Torres & By Alex Tanzi | June 10, 2024 at 10:45 AM

Photo: Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

More than two years into the most aggressive Federal Reserve monetary tightening in four decades, the big surprise is that the world hasn't fallen over.

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Analysis

1 Another Pension Plan Risk-Transfer Lawsuit: Lumber Firm Sued over Its $1.5 Billion Transfer to Athene Annuity

2 Fed’s Focus Has Returned Firmly to Inflation

3 Fed Lowers Interest Rates by a Quarter Point

4 Fabricating a Treasury Function from Scratch to Support an $18 Billion Business

5 U.S.–Euro Rates Gap Is Set to Widen Again

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