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This hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of the honorable shelton to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system and dr. Hristopher waller to be a member of the board of governors system. Federal reserve welcome and congratulations to each of you for your nominations. Family in the nd room today and i welcome them as well. Were fortunate to have these two highly qualified nominees today. Ng these positions are critical to nsuring a safe, sound and vibrant Financial System and to help the growing economy. The Federal Reserve was created by congress as the nations to promote a stable conomy and a safer, more flexible Financial System. Among the Federal ....
Speakers included a formal consultant from the office of the u. S. Trade representative and member of the White House Council of economic advisors. From the American Enterprise institute, this is two hours. Well start again. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, im glad youre with us. Im alex pollock from the r street institute. And we welcome you on trade deficits and the Trump Administration. It goes without saying debates about trade, tariffs, other barriers to trade, balance of trade and payments and shifts in foreign exchanges, whether the flee of gold in old bays or reserves nominated in fiat currencies now have a long and controversial history in domestics and in politics. These debates feature the famous and essential contrast between the interests of producers on one side and those of consumers on ....
Public service by americas Cable Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. The American Enterprise institute here in washington, d. C. Posted a Panel Discussion on the impact of efforts to reduce the usa trade deficit. Following their presentations and rebuttals, panelists answered questions from the audience. There we go. Well start again. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, im glad youre with us. Im alex pollock from the r street institute. Its a pleasure for us to welcome you to this timely conference on trade deficits and the Trump Administration. It goes without saying debates about trade, tariffs, other barriers to trade, balance of trade and payments and shifts in foreign exchanges, whether the flow o ....
We now have about 1. 4 trillion in mortgages on their own Balance Sheet. Making the fed as i previously said the Worlds Largest savings and loan. The feds goal is to push house prices higher, and in my view, they have no overachieved. I want to look at house prices in a much longer perspective. I hope you can see some of his chart. This is a 60 year history that goes from 19532015. Its a slight of the Consumer Price index versus average u. S. House prices, both indexed to 1953 equal 100. What you can immediately see if you cant read numbers is that there is an extremely strong correlation and mean reversion of house prices to general inflation, which makes sense if you think about it. Obviously, with the bubble we went far off that underlying trend, and then with a shriveled house prices came right back. If you can look o ....