What Jerome Powell didn’t do: Lay the groundwork for higher rates

What Jerome Powell didn’t do: Lay the groundwork for higher rates

The real news out of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday was not in what it did, but in what Chair Jerome Powell didn’t do. The thing that the Fed’s policy committee did — announce that the central bank would gradually wind down its economy-stimulating program of buying bonds — was highly telegraphed and comfortably in … Read more