The Fed’s Tools to Affect Monetary Policy | News or Noise

The Fed has used two tools to affect monetary policy since the great financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, interest rates and its balance sheet. More and more bearish slanted stories have hit the news wires lately centered around the reduction in the Feds Balance sheet, also referred to as Quantitative tightening or QT.  Recall the Fed initially announced a combined 47.5 billion per month, $30 billion for Treasuries and $17.5 billion for mortgage-backed securities, in balance sheet runoff for the second quarter.  They then said they would double that to $95 billion per month starting in September. Click here to learn more.

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Are these topics Newsworthy and should you be paying attention?

As you know, our constant advice for investors is to “tune out the noise.” But sometimes it is hard to know what’s noise and what’s not! That’s what this series is going to be about.

Our goal here is to approach these stories and each topic from an independent, investor-first, standpoint, divorce ourselves from personal feelings, emotional bias, or political opinion, and briefly analyze what we believe each story means for long-term investors.

These are going to be quick, casual, opinion pieces, and while we will use data to support our view, we will most likely be wrong in our interpretations, at least some of the time. However, we are looking to practice what we preach, and to help investors to rationally and critically analyze emotion-laden stories.

So with that said…

News or Noise?

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About Chris Perras, CFA®, CLU®, ChFC®, Chief Investment Officer

As CIO, Chris is the lead investment strategist and director of research at Oak Harvest Financial Group. Chris develops the firm's core market outlook, putting his decades of experience and expertise to work for our clients. He hosts Oak Harvest's podcast, "Stock Talk," available on the website with new episodes each week.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Georgia Tech, and went on to obtain an MBA from the Harvard Business School.  Driven by a desire to maximize his knowledge and skill set, he acquired a plethora of financial planning and investment management qualifications, becoming a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®), a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®), and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®).

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