Morgan Stanley’s Gapen: The Fed held steady, but the chair offered no convincing explanation
Michael Gapen, Morgan Stanley’s chief US economist, said what surprised him most was that the chair offered no convincing explanation for why the committee held steady this month. The real policy-based answer is that inflation is driven largely by supply-side forces, raising rates cannot produce more oil, and monetary policy can only prevent energy prices from passing through to other goods.
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