U.S. economy is still strong despite the Fed’s 2022-23 rate hikes

 Effect of rate hikes ‘has been much weaker than the economics textbook would have predicted,’ according to economist Torsten Slok

Neither consumers nor businesses buckled under the weight of higher borrowing costs from the Federal Reserve’s 2022-23 hiking cycle.

Vivien Lou Chen MarketWatch 2 January 2025

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-u-s-economy-is-still-strong-despite-the-feds-2022-23-rate-hikes-b3affa3a

The elusive ‘neutral’ interest rate interest — or “r star,” as economists call it

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-elusive-neutral-interest-rate.html

Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 2 januari 2025

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/rolfs-lanktips-2-januari-2025.html