Summary: Has the Fed become irrelevant? FOMC Meeting. Public Domain. Source: Philadelphia Fed In case you hadn’t noticed, the Fed is raising rates today. We’ve come a long way from the rock-star Greenspan era – where observers tried to guess which way Fed policy was headed by the girth of The Great One’s briefcase, and markets hung on his every word. Now, with quarterly dot-plots and press conferences, we’re awash in information. By trotting out Fed Governors and […]
