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Fed Watching for Fun & Profit: A Primer for Investors (Predicting the Markets Topical Study) Hardcover – March 9, 2020

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In predicting the major stock, bond, commodity, and foreign exchange markets around the world, nothing is more important than to anticipate the actions of the Federal Reserve System’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets the course of monetary policy in the United States. By controlling the key interest rate in the money markets and other monetary variables, the FOMC has an enormous impact on the global economy and financial markets.Watching the Fed closely are not only Wall Street’s economists and investment strategists but also reporters and commentators at the major financial news organizations. In fact, anyone involved in investment matters and business activities anywhere in the world needs to watch the Fed, because its policies have powerful impacts not only on the US economy but also on the global economy.For participants in the financial markets, anticipating a policy change by the Fed and positioning an investment portfolio or speculative trade accordingly can result in big gains. Conversely, failing to anticipate a move by the Fed can result in big losses or missed opportunities for gains.In this unique primer, Dr. Edward Yardeni, one of the world’s most experienced and widely followed “Fed watchers,” helps investors to understand the FOMC’s decision-making process, anticipate its moves, and profit from those insights.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ YRI Press (March 9, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948025159
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948025157
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.98 x 9 inches
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Dr. Ed Yardeni is the President of Yardeni Research, Inc., a provider of global investment strategy and asset allocation analyses and recommendations. He previously served as Chief Investment Strategist of Oak Associates, Prudential Equity Group, and Deutsche Bank’s US equities division in New York City. He was also the Chief Economist of CJ Lawrence, Prudential-Bache Securities, and EF Hutton. He taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also held positions at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the US Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Ed earned his PhD in economics from Yale University in 1976, having completed his doctoral dissertation under Nobel Laureate James Tobin. Previously, he received a master’s degree in international relations from Yale. He completed his undergraduate studies magna cum laude at Cornell University.

Dr. Ed is frequently quoted in the financial press, including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, and Barron’s. He was dubbed “Wall Street Seer” in a Barron’s cover story. He appears frequently on CNBC and Bloomberg Television. See Dr. Ed’s Media Center.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fabulous Resource About the Who, What, When, Where and WHY of the Modern Federal Reserve
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2020
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Whether I am reading his insightful Daily Morning Briefings at yardeni.com, his excellent book, "Predicting the Markets (YRI Press, 2018)," or his latest book, "Fed Watching for Fun and Profit," Ed Yardeni always teaches me something, always makes me think and question my own perceptions of the financial landscape-- and I have been analyzing and trading markets since 1979! Ed is a master writer, extremely entertaining but at the same time he delivers his superior intellect in a way that few professional economist can. In "Fed Watching For Fun and Profit," Ed takes us for a journey through the Fed as an institution, and through policies, politics, and Fed leaders who have become so powerful and iconic since the 1970s. Anyone and everyone 20 years old and older, who has an interest in the financial markets, needs to read "Fed Watching for Fun and Profit," especially NOW (more than ever), as the Fed and the central bankers battle the severely debilitating economic impact of the Coronavirus Crisis. Michael Paulenoff 4/05/20
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L. Caine
4.0 out of 5 stars epilogue
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2023
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The epilogue was the best part of this book! So make sure you read that. It was a great book but a little redundant. It would have been better if it was a little less repetitive.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good, fast read.
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2020
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Good info on past and present Fed Chairs, their thought processes. Very good insight on the world central banks. We see common ground is shared in the era since 2008-2009.
I liked pages 149-273 ( including the charts ).....great thought on current predicaments and what might occur in near future.
Negative interest rates? Cash liquidity? Current inflation of the last decade and what to do worldwide for growth? Can some inflation creep in, do we want it to creep in?
I'm of the belief that the central bankers are the most powerful people in the democratic world.....this group must be smart and very little room for missteps!

Good book for those who pay close attention to what we do financially!

Mike Edmiston
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Rob Kirk
4.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting book that I wish was written now
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2022
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This is a very good book that includes many interesting facts about the history of the fed and the key participants. Yardeni’s politics align with mine so it’s easy to agree. However, I would write a second edition with the Fed’s terrible response to Covid and the ensuing inflation in 2022. This could make 2008 look like elementary school. In summary, well worth your time and money.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Fed as chameleon, taking on the personality of the chairman
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2020
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Dr. Yardeni does a great job of showing how the personalities and philosophies of each Fed Chair colored the actions taken, or sometimes not taken, by the Fed. As opposed to a cold, fact-driven institution, the Fed lives and breathes the views of the Chairman. Yardeni also lays open the internal politics of the Fed, where the strong personalities of powerful Fed Governors and members of the Open Market Committee cooperate and sometimes clash in setting monetary policy. It is written in a very entertaining and easily understood style by a man who has studied the Fed at close range for decades. You will come away with a whole new understanding of what goes on behind the scenes of one of the most powerful economic institutions in the world.
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alan blake
5.0 out of 5 stars Timely publication by a celebrated Fed watcher
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2020
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How timely can you be? With the Fed's actions over the past few weeks, Ed Yardeni publishes a book giving everyone, wall streeters and casual observers alike, a great historical overview of a major Washington institution. Ups, downs, successes, failures, it is all there, warts and all. Clear, concise, and immediately relevant.
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ramk
2.0 out of 5 stars Fed chair biographies
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2020
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Book is to most part brief biographies of fed chairs. That was not I was expecting from book title.
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Fred Fraenkel
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr Ed creates another must read.
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2020
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Dr Ed does it again! A super ride through all of the past FED chairmen stopping along the way to point out what is important for investors to watch. A nostalgic and educational read for grey hairs and a must read for those who weren’t professionals yet in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
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