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> They should have been raising interest rates well before the pandemic. They did? * https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/s
by throw0101c 4y ago
> They should have been raising interest rates well before the pandemic.
They did?
* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
Do people not remember that there were already predictions of an upcoming recession by H2 2019?
* https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/08/the-great-yield-curve-inversion-of-2019/ https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/08/the-great-yie...
* https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/12/31/2019s-yield-curve-inversion-means-a-recession-could-hit-in-2020/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/12/31/2019s-yie...
An October 2019 interview with Campbell Harvey, who originally noticed the rate inversion phenomena in a paper he published:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sb1byR8Zx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sb1byR8Zx0