Paul Tudor Jones Says Fed Constrained By Debt

Paul Tudor Jones echoed a whisper concern in a Bloomberg TV interview this morning, saying that the U.S. Federal Reserve is restraining itself from raising interest rates because such a move would increase government interest payments. The observation that the Fed was focusing on debt management rather than overall economic conditions, putting yet another mandate in play as a determinant as to when it should raise interest rates, is an issue most often verbalized in private, which makes the public comments even more noteworthy.

Paul Tudor Jones: Acknowledgement of government debt a much larger macro issue

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