This Fed has got to go. It’s time. You’ve overstayed your welcome, Fed Chief Powell. I literally was just shaking my head after reading the changes to the Fed’s policy statement. The changes were in the first two paragraphs, so let me jump right in and show you what changed in the wording and, essentially, what the Fed acknowledged: Wording in red with a line through it was wording from the prior policy statement that was not in the current policy statement. Wording in red and underlined is new wording in the current policy statement. I think the most important change is the last line in the second paragraph. At the prior meeting, the statement said the FOMC “remains highly attentive to inflation risks”. That clearly showed that the Fed was much more concerned about inflation than the economy. The economy wasn’t even mentioned. But the latest statement now reads…
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