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Jackson Hole and the Risk of Inaction

Jackson Hole is not going to rescue the bad decisions of investors and politicians from other countries because everyone in the Federal Reserve knows they have something more important to do.

If we analyze the consensus expectations of analysts and investment banks at the end of 2017, the conclusion was unanimous: Buy Europe and emerging against the United States amid weakening US dollar estimates in 2018. And it has been exactly the opposite. We already warned a few times about the risk of such a biased consensus towards a weak US dollar. Continue reading Jackson Hole and the Risk of Inaction