Société Générale

On Saturday, I shared the Chinese-English parallel text of Warsh's speech at Jackson Hole in the group chat and recommended reading the original. A group member replied: "How we interpret it doesn't matter; what matters is how Wall Street interprets it." This sounds smart—markets are indeed driven by pricing—but it happens to hit the bullseye of this very speech. We'll start from this quote today because the mindset behind it is exactly what Warsh dedicated an entire paragraph to criticizing. Bottom line: The most important takeaway isn't whether he's 'hawkish,' but that Warsh announced a change in the rules of the game. Understanding this...