Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Money Metals' Weekly Market Wrap Podcast

The Federal Reserve is between a rock and a hard place. It needs to cut interest rates because this debt-riddled economy can’t function in a high-rate environment. But it can’t plausibly cut rates with price inflation still far above its target. As Mike Maharrey explains in this episode of Money Metals’ Midweek Memo, the Fed is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t.