While Fed Dilly-Dallies, Central Bankers Overseas Get To Work
January 15, 2010 at 09:28 AM EST
I talked in last week’s column about how our Federal Reserve won’t raise interest rates until the cows come home. But you can’t say the same thing about many central banks overseas … The men and women in charge there aren’t sitting idly by while new bubbles inflate. They’re not whistling past the graveyard while asset prices balloon ever higher. They’re actually starting to normalize policy — and since those moves have investment implications for you, you need to be aware of them. China Taking the Lead … Again The U.S. economy USED to lead the world. But that isn’t the case these days. We’re…