The Federal Reserve has certainly garnered its fair share of the headlines lately. Whether it was Powell’s Jackson Hole guidance toward a likely rate cut in a couple of weeks or Fed Governor Cook’s potential removal from the Federal Reserve Board, investors have had a rash of news to digest in just the last couple of weeks. Against this backdrop, I wanted to provide some perspective and filter out the noise that has accompanied the headlines, focusing on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and how monetary policy decision-making is actually made. There has been a lot of discussion and conjecture about how ... (full story)