Thirty - year fixed - rate mortgage interest rates will fall to about 6.7 percent by the end of 1999 and remain stable next year, despite the Federal Reserve's
slight tightening of monetary policy beginning in the second half of 1999, he predicts.
Gold is selling off as uncertainty grows about the identity and thinking
of the next Fed chairman, about the efficacy
of QE and about the world's tolerance to endure even the
slightest tightening in the Fed's unprecedentedly easy
monetary policy.