Markets tend to focus on one “hot topic” per week – and this week, jobs took center stage. As you know by now, the Federal Reserve Bank in the US has a dual mandate – meaning it has to balance two priorities as it considers interest rate levels and monetary policy. That dual mandate includes […]

If you have read any of my posts over the past two years, you are familiar with at least one part of the Federal Reserve Bank’s dual mandate – price stability (said another way, combat inflation). We have spent many a Fridays dissecting the latest inflation data and debating when (or if) prices would start […]