Why didn't The Fed anticipate the downside of their actions?
Follow up by: Isn't The Fed supposed to prevent bank failures, not cause them?
Mind you, there are other (loop) holes that enable such things. Nonetheless, are these random-y bank failure or failures of The Fed and its associated regulatory friends?
So the Fed is supposed to keep its interest rates at 0 forever just because some banks based their business decisions on the assumption that interest rates will stay at 0 forever?
If you’re placing the blame at the feet of the FED then you can’t also blame the FED for correcting the mistake.
Also the FED doesn’t exist in a vacuum - saying that it’s the “key contributor” doesn’t make a lot of sense. For example the FED didn’t mandate that Congress overspend by so much during the Trump admin and then produce subsequent pandemic payouts under the same admin. The FED has a mandate to get inflation down. If your business relies on low interest rates that is your fault and your problem. It’s not the government’s job to babysit your business just as it’s not the government’s job to interfere with someone taking out a high interest rate loan for a car purchase.
I'm looking for leadership to lead. I'm looking for those who should be accountable, to be accountable.
I'm not interested in the moment and the firehose of distractions.
The Fed has a mandate to mitigate swings in the economy. The Fed has a mandate to prevent bank failures. And finally, The Fed was instrumental in creating the inflation. Let's not forget about that either.
> The FED… mitigate swings
> The FED… prevent bank failures
> The FED was instrumental…
It sounds a whole lot like you are placing blame.
The FED has a mandate to keep inflation around some percentage and to keep unemployment around some percentage. It most certainly does not have a mandate to prevent bank failures or “mitigate swings in the economy” whatever that means.
> The Fed was instrumental in creating the inflation.
Can you specify the exact actions the FED took to create inflation? Not that you are blaming them of course.
_Everybody_ in banking is supposed to be aware that if the interest rate goes up the spot or mark-to-market value of a bond goes down. This is not something complicated like Black-Scholes.
Everybody in banking is able to see the inflation prints and aware that increasing inflation may cause the central bank to raise rates. A bunch of people failed to spot this and have since been sacked and/or lost their equity in SVB.
They didn't fail to spot it. They just didn't anticipate them to be so drastic in such a short time span. It's barely a week ago Jerome Powell said their own prognoses were still wrong.
Why didn't The Fed anticipate the downside of their actions?
Follow up by: Isn't The Fed supposed to prevent bank failures, not cause them?
Mind you, there are other (loop) holes that enable such things. Nonetheless, are these random-y bank failure or failures of The Fed and its associated regulatory friends?