[lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Mar 24 21:01:48 PDT 2008


On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:


>> 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?
>
> It's in the calculations - the assumption that the Fed will be pushing
> short rates down.

I guess my question was: doesn't that seem like a lot more than is likely?

But I guess that's a silly question. No one says the markets can't be wrong.

Michael



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