Fed Chair Kevin Warsh cautioned against overly sanguine hopes about declining price rise, stating recently that, although the latest consumer price and personal consumption expenditure measures came in better than anticipated, they do not reflect a real change in the deep-level trend.
He refused to specify what interest rates could be in the future and proposed a more muted Fed operation with decreased forward guidance reliance.
What did Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Revealed to Policy
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s talk shifted the spotlight from disinflation to the more persistent core components. By leaving the question of cuts or hikes open, he highlighted a data-driven approach to decision-making without indicating any moves.
Also, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh call for less forward guidance means that, instead of relying on Fed speeches, the markets should derive policy pricing exclusively from the newly released datasets.
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Silent Fed Muddies Rate Expectations
For Bitcoin Ethereum stablecoins, and risk-on assets, Fed communication determines the future state of the dollar, liquidity expectations, and big investor positioning.
Source: Zach Rynes
A Fed that keeps silent about the situation makes it harder to understand expectations about rates as reflected through CME Fed Funds Futures, ETF flows, and US treasury yields.
If the Fed doesn’t guide on the future exchanges market makers, and fund managers who have made bets based on an easy turn of the Fed’s stance may suffer higher volatility.
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Making Sense of the Economic Situation
The Fed’s comments come despite ongoing fiscal deficits, a robust labor market, and increasing regulatory involvement with cryptocurrencies from the SEC and CFTC.
The correlation between stablecoin supply growth and Fed balance sheet movements remains a key metric for Glassnode and gets regularly checked.
Upcoming FOMC minutes and PCE data revisions together with a new legislation that Congress may adopt for stablecoins will likely have a major bearing on crypto liquidity in the latter part of this year.
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