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A Brief Chronicle of the Federal Reserve’s First Balance Sheet Contraction

If we follow the threads underlying inflation over the past year to their earliest beginnings, they run straight through the fog of pandemic, quickly pass by the financial crisis in 2008, and wind their way past the Great Inflation of the 1970s...
The Policy Repercussions of the Third Great Mistake Are Slowly Becoming More Apparent

As much as last year centered around the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy, the major topic of discussion in the financial markets this year has been centered around inflation, and its prospective impact on monetary policy.
A Look at Prospective Market Returns Amid a New Era of Negative Real Rates

One theme we have focused on in these letters over the past three years is what a transition into a regime of negative real interest rates looks and feels like, and the long-term consequences such a regime brings for the markets, and for investors.
This Era May Come to Be Remembered as the Federal Reserve’s Third Great Mistake

The Great Inflation of the 1960s and 70s, the earliest stages of which were already underway when Graham spoke at the St. Francis Hotel, eventually produced some of the most astonishing economic dislocations in U.S. history.