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by David Stockman
David Stockman’s Contra Corner
How ever-loving stupid do they think we really are?
Goldman’s plenipotentiary at the New York Fed, William Dudley or B-Dud, has been running around pointedly emitting a new word signal called “patient” rather than “considerable time” to describe the Fed’s interest raising plan. Then right on cue, his alter ego back at Goldman central, Herr Hatzius, yesterday dug out and circulated to the clientele an identical 10-year ago audible from when the Fed last changed its password in 2004:
In the 2003-2004 playbook, “considerable period” gave way to “patient” as a signal that the hikes were drawing closer, and it is interesting that the words “patient” or “patience” have shown up quite frequently in recent Fed speeches.
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