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You are what your real fed funds rate says you are

Timid US central bank is still very far from hawkish with policy benchmark deep in negative territory after taking into account inflation

The writer is chief executive and chief investment officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors

Former NFL coach Bill Parcells once famously said, “You are what your record says you are.” A team’s coach might try to rationalise a losing record by highlighting good planning, unfortunate injuries, or players’ small miscues but the stark reality is a team with a losing record is a poor one.

The Federal Reserve claims to be fighting inflation, but before one proclaims the central bank “hawkish”, it seems appropriate to paraphrase Parcells: you are what your real fed funds rate says you are.

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