Why the Fed Keeps Denying Its Role in Increasing Inequality
The Breakdown12 Jun 2020

Why the Fed Keeps Denying Its Role in Increasing Inequality

Today on the Brief: Three Arrows holds more than 6% of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust New platform for censorship-resistant blogging Coinbase announces new token potentials as anti-surveillance hodlers flood out Today’s main topic: Why the Fed keeps denying its role in inequality Some key takeaways from yesterday’s Federal Open Markets Committee meeting: Interest rates are likely to stay near zero through 2022 Unemployment anticipated to average between 9% and 10% during last three months of 2020 Economy expected to contract 4% to 10% this year No specific discussion of yield curve control Inflation expected to be 1.0% this year and 1.5% in 2021, lower than Fed target of 2% According to Chairman Powell, inequality has nothing to do with Fed policy On this episode, NLW recaps the above and dives deeper on two of the points: Net inflation stats gloss over specifics, including food prices that have been rising at an annual rate of 17.5% The Fed’s pronounced role in exacerbating inequality by propping up artificially high asset prices, effectively locking low and middle income households out of the mechanism for economic advancement

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