I work to make sure he gets a full feeding but he doesn't eat as
long at each feeding as before (I think he's just gotten more efficient with those).
If a mother temporarily produces less milk than the infant needs, the infant responds by suckling more vigorously, more frequently, or
longer at each feeding.
As your baby gets older, she will not need to nurse as
long at each feeding.
Not exact matches
The interbank rate has been
at its lowest level, near zero percent, for the
longest period in the history of the
Fed.
«The
Fed is
at the tail end of a
long series of actions,» Jones said.
«The whole proposal is stupid,» says Bob Eisenbeis, an economist and strategist
at Cumberland Advisors and a
long - time
Fed watcher.
Williams, who will leave his current job as San Francisco
Fed president in June to take over
at the New York
Fed, also said he expects the
Fed's shrinking balance sheet will help steepen the curve by putting upward pressure on
longer - term rates.
«The
Fed left interest rates
at zero bound for as
long as they did so they were able to access an overabundance of debt,» DiMartino Booth said.
«With the unemployment rate
at 4.7 %, wage growth clearly picking up, and financial conditions much easier, there is likely a limit to how
long the
Fed's pause can last,» Goldman Sachs economists Jan Hatzius and Zach Pandl wrote in a recent note to clients.
At the core could be a general drop in «underlying» or
long - term trend inflation that is
feeding on itself and keeping the rate low, simply because that is what consumers have come to expect.
In a speech Tuesday,
Fed Governor Lael Brainard said the
long - standing assessment
at the central bank that persistently low inflation is the result of transitory factors that eventually will pass does not add up considering current circumstances.
After all, for most of us the winter months are ideal reading season - outdoor activities are less appealing, the urge to cocoon
at home is upon us, and often we're blessed with some good
long breaks from work to unwind and
feed our minds.
One way to gauge what the market expects in terms of short - term rates is to look
at Fed Funds future contracts, which allow investors to place bets on what where the federal funds rate will be in the future (This
long - term view can influence short - term rates).
Ever since the bank introduced that extraordinary forward guidance in December of last year,
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has been
at pains to explain to investors and reporters that the 6.5 % target is a «threshold» and not a «trigger,» meaning that the bank could decide to keep rates low for
longer if it is not satisfied that 6.5 % really indicates a substantial improvement.
If you listen to public chatter, it's going to be a toss - up between
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, the
long - time favourite among economists, and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, whom the Washington Post «s Ezra Klein says is
at the top of Barack Obama's short - list.
Getting machines to become «superhuman»
at certain tasks without
feeding them human data has been a
long - standing challenge in the AI research community, which is held back when human data is too expensive, too unreliable, or simply unavailable.
When Bernanke's taper talk caused
long - term interest rates to rise much faster than the
Fed intended, one of the ways in which the central banks sought to allay market fears was to stress that it would keep short - term rates steady until the jobless rate had reached
at least 6.5 %.
«The
Fed has not raised interest rates in such a
long time, that it should really do it for good, not give it a try and then have to come back,» International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde said
at a press conference in Ankara.
You can
feed in hundreds or thousands of potential keywords (e.g. from Google suggest or Webmaster tools)
at one end and get a
long tail Adwords campaign (nicely categorized into adgroups) out
at the other end.
If
at the end of 90 days brokers have not affirmatively opted in to the
feed, their listings would no
longer be sent automatically.
At BlackRock, we have
long been saying that the second half was likely to be characterized by more volatility, given increasing investor attention on the
Fed's next move.
If
long bond inflation concerns are indeed correct (which I believe they are), the
Fed will have to ratchet short term rates
at a faster pace which may re-invert the yield curve.
«So
long as the
Fed is in an accommodative mode and the economy is out of recession, the odds are that you will have a bull market,» David Rosenberg, chief economist
at Gluskin Sheff and Associates, told the New York Times Tuesday.
In Bernanke's press conference, he said the
Fed's easing «is not a panacea,» but is aimed
at staying «accommodative
long enough to ensure recovery.»
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At the moment, however, as
long as the
Fed gives us an extended period of time until 2014 and maybe shortly in 2015, then the front end of the curve can be maintained.
Chair Yellen has consistently maintained that as
long as nominal wages grow no faster than the
Fed's inflation target of 2 percent plus productivity growth, which is running
at (a truly yucky) 1 percent these days, wages can grow 3 percent without generating inflationary pressures.
But my priors suggest that the
Fed may be the only rational, fact - based economists
at the controls for a while... maybe a good,
long while.
But the target of this
Fed mishegas may be a bit more nuanced than that: conservatives have
long been gunning to reduce the
Fed's dual mandate — full employment
at stable prices — to a sole mandate of stable prices.
Moreover, money for fiscal stimulus may translate into net Treasury issuance this year of US$ 1.3 trillion
at a time when the
Fed itself is no
longer a buyer.
I also noticed that politics were starting to move left, deficits were getting larger, and the
Fed had committed a policy error post-tech bubble in leaving rates
at 1 % for so
long.
The
longer the
Fed leaves its target rate
at zero, the greater the chance of asset price bubbles — and eventual crashes.
Also, when the
Fed sells
long - term assets, there is some prospect for losses on these sales depending on the level of
long - term interest rates
at the time when such sales occur.
So far the «logic» appears to amount to «we've been
at 0 % for too
long», «the
Fed wants to raise rates so they can lower them later», «we need to fend off financial instability» or «we just need to get that first hike out of the way».
But panelist Daniel Greenhaus, chief global strategist
at institutional trading brokerage BTIG, who makes appearances on Bloomberg TV and works with clients in the hedge fund world, said that hedgies take a
longer view and avoid the noise in the blogosphere: «If you talk to George Soros, all he wants is the big picture view of QE tapering: «When will the
Fed stop buying back bonds?
Whether its the history of
Fed hikes, the evolving status of central bank balance sheets, the comparisons of the similarities between the tech bubble and today, or any of his other perceptions, all should go a
long way to assisting you to look
at your own investment activity with a little more knowledge.
For example, Bullard believes that the policy rates are currently
at the appropriate levels and that the
Fed has, ``... delayed a little bit too
long in reducing the size of the balance sheet.»
The
Fed's
longer - run expectations for the unemployment rate currently sit
at 4.5 %, down from 4.6 % in December but still above both the current and expected future rates of unemployment.
As the indicator in Chart 4 suggests, even as the
Fed has recently raised interest rates under their control, monetary conditions remain a
long way from being sufficiently «tight» to restrict financial system liquidity and putting the economic expansion
at risk.
Sean Becketti, the chief economist for Freddie Mac, discussed this indirect relationship in a recent statement: «We take the
Fed at its word that monetary tightening in 2016 will be gradual, and we expect only a modest increase in
longer - term rates.
The Euro is a big gainer
at themid - session, boosted by the Medley report as traders entered new
long positionsin anticipation of the
Fed easing.
Wednesday's forecast put the
Fed long - term rate - the point
at which its policies are neither boosting the economy nor holding it back -
at 2.9 percent.
And yes, actually the market reaction has really being quite muted and I don't know whether this partly reflects the new economic norm, you know the flattening of the Phillips Curve, disruptive change, lower inflation the
Fed talked about
at the Jackson Hole Summit last year, something called Our Star which is going to lower
long - term rate of equilibrium interest rates.
So there are lots of those
long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that
long - term interest rates may not rise
at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing
Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.
As the economy or the
Fed reverses the adverse inflation - rate trend back toward price stability, P / E will trough
at its lows and begin the
long climb that drives secular bull markets.
Under Powell's predecessors, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, the
Fed's board endured criticism from House Republicans over its decision to pursue a bond purchase program designed to lower
long - term borrowing rates and to leave its key rate
at a record low near zero for seven years.
I've
long wondered that after four years of unprecedented monetary policy with still very tepid
at best economic growth, just whether investors would lose faith in the
Fed (and really global central bankers for that matter) and politicians.
Looking
at the chart below, courtesy of Chris Vermeulen via the St Louis
Fed, we see the
long - term expansion of M2 money supply is in a
long - term uptrend:
The
Fed tapering QE means dollar liquidity globally will no
longer be expanding
at the rate it has since 2009.
But analysts also failed to accurately gauge the impact of the recession on energy use, and
feed - in tariffs [
long - term contracts for renewable energy
at a fixed price per kilowatt - hour] did not take into account falling demand.