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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Is Monetary Policy Contributing to Rising Inequality?


Ruchir Sharma has an interesting op-ed in today’s WSJ. He observes:
“The Fed can print as much money as it wants, but it can't control where it goes, and much of it is finding its way into financial assets. On many long-term metrics, the stock market is now at levels that fall within the top 10% of valuations recorded over the past 100 years. The rally in the fixed-income market too is reaching giddy proportions, particularly for high-yield junk bonds, which are up 150% since 2009.”