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Prof. Kim Schoenholtz on when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In some sense, you could argue that when the Fed starts to normalize after this very unusual period, that that will be actually psychologically helpful because it will tell the world that the US is back on a normalization path. That will be a sign of health. I don't expect the Fed to rush into this. In fact, you could argue that, with oil prices having fallen so far, that that will give the Fed a bit of a chance to be even more patient. Inflation is lower and we have had a positive supply-side shock. If anything, the textbook response to that is to wait longer."

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