The Federal Reserve Is Making The World A Much Riskier Place

Adam Wren
Predict
Published in
3 min readSep 30, 2022

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In response to US inflation the Federal Reserve has recently reversed direction on its position for the last decade. The easy money is gone, interest rates are being hiked and its balance sheet is shrinking. Americans will ‘feel some pain’ Chairman Powell warned in May.

The fed has made the macabre calculation that raising interest rates, and risking a…

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Adam Wren
Predict

M.A in Geopolitics, Territory and Security from King’s College London. I’m much more concerned with what’s going to happen rather than what should happen.