[lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Mar 24 19:24:26 PDT 2008


On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Maybe they can't but the level of T-bill interest rates isn't much
> evidence that they can't. If anything, it means the Fed is lagging the
> market, not leading it. (The market assumes the Fed will be cutting
> more, so rate reflect that assumption.)

I'm not sure I follow this -- the 1 month T-bill is at 0.5% because the market expects the Fed funds rate to come down 1.75% in the next month?

Michael



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