George Eckerd News Today

<p><span>I want to start by thanking Anna Kovner, Rochelle Edge, and Bill Bassett for organizing this conference. The current global environment highlights the importance of having strong analytic and empirical foundations to understand financial stability considerations for monetary policy, and the research presented today will help strengthen those foundations.</span><span> The global environment of high inflation and rising interest rates highlights the import...

<p><span>Good morning, and thank you, Raphael. I am delighted to participate in the 25th Financial Markets Conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which this year focuses on the role of central banks in fostering a resilient economy and financial system.</span></p>

Americans are more likely to go on shopping sprees when the stock market is rising — why that’s a bad thing MarketWatch 1/25/2021 Call it the Great Disconnect of 2020. While more than 30 million Americans were unemployed at some point during the pandemic, the Dow Jones Industrial Average S&P 500 Index and NASDAQ Composite all hit all-time highs last year and continue to rally. This gives many Americans a false sense of security about the country’s economic fortunes, researchers...