This is the one business show you cant afford to mess im christiane and im going to board washington coming up the Federal Reserve on wednesday release their minutes of their january meeting but what path has the central bank decided to take well break down the feds moves and how its close choosing to react to global instability what wall way has lost a case in court relating to the purchases of its products but how will the embattled telecoms giant bear Going Forward will analyze the future of cross the globe. In the great. German europe. And later the u. S. Has sanctioned russian oil giant ross now as the nation has ramped up the effort against venezuela well do a deep dive into the penalties and what it means for the petro sector. Today so lets go and dive right in. The federal open Market Committee released edited minutes from his january meeting during which policymakers voted to keep Interest Rates unchanged between 1. 51 and 3 quarters percent drone policy now says that the u. S
American family is not going to tell you that inflation is running too low so how would they be able to actually combat this. Well they say that they want to get inflation up to a certain range and that is code that is fed speak for saying we want to keep Monetary Policy easier for as long as it takes to get up to that 2 percent bogey and what how investors rightly read that message is that theyre going to continue growing the Balance Sheet and if need be and we know that the need could could be happening with the coronavirus shock to the to the to the economy not just in china but here in the United States if that means further rate cuts in 2020 that is certainly what the markets have begun to price in now speaking of how does the f o m c participants view the corona Virus Outbreak is this a threat to Global Growth and if so how much is there a cause for a material reassessment in the outlook and what would that possibly mean for additional easing next year or this year. Well so i thi
The fed utilizes imputes Health Care Costs which is really going through the roof for the average working family it imputes Health Care Costs using medicare and medicaid reimbursement rates so it artificially depresses this number to 1. 00 that youre reading about d in the minutes but if you look at the core c. P. I. The core Consumer Price index which strips out food and energy it has been running at or above 2 percent which is the feds target for 23 straight months now so i think that there needs to be some soul searching at the fed because the average American Family is not going to tell you that inflation is running too low so how would they be able to actually combat this. Well they say that they want to get inflation up to a certain range and that is code that is fed speak for saying we want to keep Monetary Policy easier for as long as it takes to get up to that 2 percent bogey and where. How investors rightly read that message is that theyre going to continue growing the Balanc
Deduction to San Francisco filers so we think that its about 2. 1 billion for the state and local tax dedukd deduction a lot smaller, i dont know, 100 million or so in the property tax deduction. Supervisor cohen so overall theres less revenue going into the state budget and the local San Francisco budget for us to then reallocate during the budget process . I dont think that its a direct affect and if you take 2 2. 1 billion out of the local economy, you have to expect that it will affect the local business ability to invest or to expand supervisor cohen to hire. You have to expect that Discretionary Spending would decrease because the cost of necessities is going up and it would certainly affect your sales tax. The effect on the Housing Market and our transfer tax and the property tax as a result seems like it would if anything it would have to possibly drive down prices and just reflecting the fact that most buyers are going to have higher costs to finance and then pay taxes on thes
Hitting the people that we actually wanted in San Francisco versus the corporations that buy up a lot of real estate here that are going to get a huge break with this tax deduction. Lets just hope that people have a moral conscience and thats farfetched, i know, and well pushback on this but i think that we are i mean, its hard to see what the changes might be because everything is in flux but just looking at this i think that it could really hit a lot of San Francisco, but what were trying to do to get people middleclass folks in sa San Francisco to invest in a small piece of real estate here, its going to be detrimental to that effort. Supervisor cohen definitely. Any other tax wisdom that you want to share with us . Not at this moment. Ill turn it over to cindy comerford from the department of Public Health with an update on affordable care. Supervisor cohen okay. Okay, good afternoon supervisors, my name is cindy comerford and i manage the policy and planning at the department of P