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Where the Money Is 10.06.2014

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🗓️ 6 October 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What does the Federal Reserve really worry about? From unemployment numbers to inflation we are covering what you need to know!

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0:00.0

What the Fed is and is not concerned about because this is where the money is.

0:06.0

Hi Fools, financial analyst Michael Douglas here with our senior baking specialist John

0:14.3

Maxfield all the way in from Portland Oregon John how are you doing? I'm doing

0:19.3

great it's great to have you back Michael. So for listeners and viewers, I just got back from Disney World.

0:26.0

I've been water loading to try and flush all of the salt out of my system from those

0:31.4

delicious pretzels.

0:33.1

Anyway, so John's actually about to go on vacation,

0:36.6

Italy, right?

0:38.0

That is true.

0:39.4

My first vacation since my wife and I had kids, so we're really looking forward to it.

0:44.3

Absolutely and what a vacation to kick it off with.

0:47.2

All right so let's keep we're going to keep this quick and breezy.

0:50.7

Definitely want to want to send you off on vacation in a good way. So let's talk headlines.

0:56.5

The first one is from our friends over at Bloomberg News. Yellen aims to mimic Greenspan

1:01.2

on jobs, avoid bubble miss file. The below the so-called natural rate which is basically the lowest rate of

1:14.4

unemployment at which inflation remains stable. Now at present the

1:18.1

unemployment rate is about 6.1 percent. The natural rate of unemployment is

1:22.3

estimated right around 5.2%.

1:25.0

So in doing so, they'd be, if they push it below that 5.2%, they'd be following in

1:31.0

kind of Alan Greenspan's footsteps.

1:33.0

He once pushed unemployment down to 3.8%

1:36.4

following the bursting the tech bubble in 2000.

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