The ideal interest rate for the US economy in current conditions would be minus 5 per cent, according to internal analysis prepared for the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting.Later in the article there is a short discussion of the FEDs massive expansion of bank reserves that is designed to keep rates near zero (see Reserve Bank Credit Soaring Again (Graph))
The analysis was based on a so-called Taylor-rule approach that estimates an appropriate interest rate based on unemployment and inflation.
The FED has once again started buying Treasuries to keep rates down. Is it working? Just this weekend I published two charts that showed that ten year government and thirty year government bond interest rates are creeping up. See: 10 Year Treasury Closes above 3 Percent (Graph) and 30 Year Goverment Bond Signaling Problems Ahead (Chart).
All of this is worrisome and it should have holders of stocks paying attention.
Fed study puts ideal US interest rate at -5%
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