Investors, waiting, chomping at the bit after the feds announcement on Interest Rates a little later. An Interest Rate hike is forecast. 2018 the expectation for and 2019 that will be in focus. The bloomberg dollar index, in the wake of the Alabama Senate election, falling today. Down by about 0. 2 . Crude rising ahead of key stockpile data. Marketsp, we will talk with christian nolting. With lapos elkann and Dennis Gartman. Sebastian the European Union againsted the u. K. Rollback on the agreement they have made last week. Michel barnier says britain cannot try to unpick the deals they made on friday. Still, europes leaders are planning to hand the u. K. A carrot for future relations. Former french president Francois Hollande says hes is a possibility for britain to strike a trade deal, but speaking exclusively to manus cranny, he cautioned that there are certain red lines. Eresident hollande a trad agreement is always possible, but it needs to be clear that it cant happen at any cost
For a conversation on Monetary Policy and the possibility of inflation in the u. S. Economy. Former Federal Reserve chair bernanke and Larry Summers speaking. Live coverage just getting underway. Will undoubted lly weighing. Thats the fun. We think that the question of rethinking the two Percent Inflation target is one of the most important questions facing Monetary Policy makers at the moment. You might say the backward looking question that we need to think about which we are thinking about is how did unconventional policy really work and should unconventional policy really be considered conventional policy. We look forward i think you have to argue that one of the biggest questions now is whether given everything we know whether a two Percent Inflation target framework is the right one for Monetary Policy. After all, when it was conceived nobody anticipated we would have so many years of trying to get inflation up to two percent and nor did we think that the long run equilibrium Int
So, in thinking about this event and in what we wanted to accomplish here, what we set out to do was to have Larry Summers make the case why we should think about this, have a number of very experienced monetary economists who have views about what we should do, think about what we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank securities and writing about the relationship between the fed and the congress only briefly me
What we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank securities and writing about the relationship between the fed and the congress only briefly mention this morning but is relevant given after the Federal Reserve exists because congress created it. As we know legs, what congress created it can take away, sarah and her colleague have a book out called the myth of independence tracing the history to congress. I will ask
By the Brookings Institution center on fiscal and Monetary Policy, an hour and 45 minutes. So, in thinking about this event and in what we wanted to accomplish here, what we set out to do was to have Larry Summers make the case why we should think about this, have a number of very experienced monetary economists who have views about what we should do, think about what we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank sec