Macroeconomics, many economists agree, is as much an art as a science. And sometimes it requires the 'reading between the lines' skills of a Kremlinologist during the Cold War.Here's my reading between the lines analysis of recent Fed statements on housing: more housing-related write-offs (and pain) for certain banks and others with mortgage-backed debt.
Yellen, Bernanke speeches: Signals?
The evidence: first, San Francisco Federal Reserve President Janet Yellen, currently a non-voting member on the Fed's Open Market Committee, delivers a low-key, candid-but-not-alarmist speech Monday to the San Diego Economics Roundtable in which she warns that "things could get worse before they get better" and that problems affecting the financial system could stick around "for some time."
Economist David Wang said Yellen's speech could be interpreted "as her staking out a claim on the dovish [interest rate cut] end of the Fed" were it not for the fact that the measured, always dispassionate Yellen "is not known for politicking or embellished commentary."
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