Saturday Washington Schedules from MaceNews

WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are Saturday’s schedules for the White House, Treasury, the State Department, USTR, the Capitol and for upcoming Federal Reserve events: The White House DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORSATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2021 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will meet with their national security team to hear […]

Jackson Hole: Fed Gets Easy Money Advice At Symposium From Presenters

By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – As Federal Reserve policymakers try to calibrate the appropriate amount of monetary stimulus for an economy still recovering from the Covid virus and experiencing unpredictable cross currents in labor and other markets, they received plenty of advice from presenters at the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole symposium Friday. Most of […]

Cautious Powell Stops Short of Signaling Near-Term Tapering In Jackson Hole Talk

‘Progress’ on Employment Made But Much More Ground To Cover Cites Downside Risks From Delta Variant Warns Would Be ‘Mistake’ To Tighten Policy Too Soon By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – A cautious Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Friday continued to indicate that the Fed is getting closer to scaling back asset purchases, but stopped […]

Italy to Push for a Stronger EU Defense; Afghan Crisis Will Have Repercussions – Sources

By Silvia Marchetti ROME (MaceNews) – Italy will push for a stronger, more coordinated European defense policy and the creation of ‘emergency’ intervention units to tackle geopolitical crises, according to ruling coalition sources. “The U.S.’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the way in which the entire NATO mission has failed to deliver a stable country, is […]