Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the most on-narrative (i.e. interconnected and central) stories in financial media. It’s not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it.
But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some sort of chord that has been struck in Narrative-world.
The Fed Is Likely to Make an ‘Insurance’ Rate Cut [Bloomberg]
With the bond market pricing in at least one interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve this year, there’s a debate whether such a move would only serve to benefit riskier assets. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Ester George recently said lower rates might spur asset price bubbles, create financial imbalances and eventually lead to a recession. Perhaps, but the cause-and-effect isn’t that simple.
Narrator: The cause-and-effect was, in fact, that simple.
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