
Portfolio Watch: All eyes on the Fed

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Our View: Powell nomination a good sign; ‘Right to repair’ scores a win
In nominating Jerome Powell for a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve, the Biden Administration has taken a step toward preserving the independence of the world’s most important central bank. Powell will likely steer a steady course and not give in to the worst policy inclinations of progressives nor to the hard money Read More →
Opinion: Led the Fed do its job, and let Powell finish his work leading it
By Kirk Lesh The question of whether Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s term should be extended has received a lot of attention recently. It seems like The Washington Post, The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal has an article on this topic every week. In a similar vein, it seems someone from the Read More →
Opinion: We might not see the inflation bus coming until it’s run us over
By John Grace Everybody wants to know the date things go sideways. As I am fond of saying, if we are jaywalking across the street it’s not the bus you do see that can disrupt our day, it’s the bus we didn’t see, couldn’t name, and was impossible to time. Global bubbles from the U.S. Read More →

Cleveland Fed CEO talks inflation, recovery at UCSB forecast

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Community Bank of Santa Maria CEO picked for Fed advisory board

Janet Silveria, the president and CEO of Community Bank of Santa Maria, has been selected as a member of the Federal Reserve’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council. The 12-member council was established by the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors in 2010 to give the board input on the economy, lending conditions and other issues that Read More →

Dubroff: No recession yet, but the warning signs are there

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