Fitch Didn’t Downgrade The U.S.’s Credit Rating. It Downgraded its Macroeconomic Rating (and No One Should Care)

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Before Silicon Valley Bank failed last week, I was considering writing a post examining the Federal Reserve’s policy framework in the context of the last sixty years of monetary policy’s history.
This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Thank you for being a paid subscriber. Lately, the 1970s have loomed large in economic commentary, thanks to a recurrence of panic over