Williams: confident that Fed can achieve a soft landing

How do you do, Mr Williams?

The FED and the ECB: It is and will remain a tragedy. The market turmoil, which they actually want to avoid by their procrastination, are caused all the more, and then presumably violently. Instead of reacting appropriately and comprehensibly to rising inflation rates and preparing the market transparently, interest rate increases are ruled out until the never-ending day.
How should a market react to such a muddle? Not at all! He knows nothing will happen anyway.
At some point the rude awakening comes suddenly.
Such action by the central banks does not correspond to their mandate: to independently ensure the greatest possible currency stability.

Hawkish press release, dovish press conference.... Gotta zig zag that market in place...

Hike to 1% fast and watch the market crash. Free money printing has to stop sometime, i guess.

How much double speak can you utter without saying anything at all?

They are rolling out the Jr. Associates to reassure us and then it goes down the "Memory Hole".

Glad I'm not in Equities.

Markets now... are not what they used to be. They are and will be all fake, depend more on policy makers and laws now than they did in the distant past.

The age demographics of all but say Africa are bad, and the current "neverending growth" market systems don't work well under "non booming age demographics".. they worked for "boomer setups", which the US and China both are exiting here now. *IE it don't work under the topheavy "aging population" demographic setup we have now, the one without the "demographic dividend."...

Hence... we either drop the system and do something new... or we do this, where basically the government and policy makers play the other side of this all. Which yeah, that's what we will do.

So don't expect anything to make "any sense"... it will make less and less for us all even here as time goes on... just my opinion though.

When the FED increased interest rates from 0.5% to 2.5% from the end 2016 to the end of 2018, the equity markets didn’t crash then, so why do you think internet rates hikes will crash the markets this time?