The U.S. economy is too strong for the Fed to be so dovish
The federal-funds rate futures market shows cuts totaling 100 basis points, or 1%, to 4.25% by the end of this year.
The federal-funds rate is expected to be 3% by the end of 2025.
The Fed should abandon the concept of a neutral real federal-funds rate. It’s a theoretical fantasy number.
Everyone agrees that it can’t be measured or even estimated because it surely isn’t a constant.
Besides, it’s a nonsensical construct: Who makes an economic or financial decision based on a nominal overnight bank reserves lending rate less the yearly percent change in a measure of consumer prices?
Only the Fed seems to do so.
Ed Yardeni MarketWatch 27 August 2024
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/powells-jackson-hole-pivot-on-rate-cuts-wont-be-his-last-039ba6fb
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