Where Are Interest Rates Headed Next? Insights from the Jackson Hole Symposium
Money For the Rest of Us
J. David Stein
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Why you might want to lock in higher yields now, given real interest rates are the highest they have been in 15 years.
Topics covered include:
- What was covered this year at the Federal Reserve Jackson Hole Symposium
- What are the primary policy actions central banks take, and how do they influence interest rates
- What is the neutral real rate of interest, and why is it important
- Why new ideas are central to an increasing standard of living
- What would drive interest rates higher or lower from current levels
- Why now is an attractive time to lock in longer-term yields
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Show Notes
Policymaking in an age of shifts and breaks by Christine Lagarde—European Central Bank
Inflation: Progress and the Path Ahead by Jerome H. Powell—The Federal Reserve Bank
The Outlook for Long-Term Economic Growth by Charles I. Jones—Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Money for the Rest of Us. |
| 0:03.0 | This is a personal financial show on Money. |
| 0:05.7 | How it works, how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm your host, David Stein, today is episode 448. |
| 0:14.1 | It's titled Where Are Interest Rates Headed Next? |
| 0:18.1 | Insights from the Jackson Hole Symposium. |
| 0:22.2 | Each year in late August, just over the mountains from our cabin in Idaho, the Federal Reserve |
| 0:27.9 | Bank of Kansas City host its annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. |
| 0:34.6 | This prestigious event is attended by central bankers, policy makers, academics, some investors, |
| 0:42.0 | and a few journalists. |
| 0:43.6 | You need an invite to go. |
| 0:45.1 | It's a highly curated list. |
| 0:47.0 | Of course, I've never been invited, even though not that far of a drive. |
| 0:51.1 | The agenda is very focused. |
| 0:54.2 | They'll discuss employment, central bank policy, financial markets, economic growth, and |
| 1:00.5 | trade. |
| 1:01.5 | In this year's symposium, there are really six sessions or key topics. |
| 1:07.7 | That's not including Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech or Christine Lagarde's |
| 1:14.2 | Lunch and Speech. |
| 1:15.2 | She's the president of the European Central Bank. |
| 1:18.7 | The conference is kicked off by the speech by the Federal Reserve Chair. |
| 1:23.5 | And the theme on Fridays, a two-day event, was monetary policy and growth, and then on |
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