Joseph Wang on Why Today's Market is Haunted by the Ghost of the Federal Reserve's Past

For this week's long-form, we welcome in Joseph Wang, author of Central Banking 101 and the fedguy.com blog.

Joseph is a former Federal Reserve staff member who left to begin writing and consulting on markets. Joseph has a deep understanding of how the Federal Reserve operates and shares his thoughts on the spread between the Fed's policy stance and the market's expectations for interest rate pausing and potential cutting. Joseph also shares his ideas of why the banking crisis of March was overdone, why we are seeing the de-dollarization narrative percolate, and why the central bank does not pay attention to precious metal valuations.

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