 Dear Money & Crisis Reader,
Over the last two days, we've discussed why "who" is running the Fed is so important to the fate of the market. Here are the major points we covered… - The current Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, greatly admires former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan.
- Greenspan famously argued that the Fed cannot predict bubbles. He also ran the Fed during the single greatest stock market bubble of all time.
- Powell is effectively repeating the same argument Greenspan used during the late ‘90s… namely that the Fed shouldn’t raise rates or tighten monetary policy based on hot inflation because said inflation is “transitory” and won’t remain for long.
This suggests that the Fed’s current leadership is open to allowing another massive bubble to form in the stock market, much as Alan Greenspan’s Fed did in the late ‘90s. So today we’re looking at this policy from the perspective of market action. The problem with bubbles is that they can take much longer to burst than ever seems possible. During the Tech Bubble, stocks, as measured by the NASDAQ, rose by average annual gains of 40% for the six years from 1991 to 1997… And that was BEFORE Alan Greenspan suggested it was impossible for the Fed to predict bubbles! 
What followed was even more astonishing… Gains of 260% in just three years — that's annualized gains of 80-plus%!!! 
Someone who was trying to predict a collapse would have probably bailed in late 1996, right around the time Greenspan gave his famous “the Fed cannot predict bubbles” speech. After all, within two years of that speech, the NASDAQ’s price-to-earnings ratio was at 30. Six months later it was at 50. And another six months down the road it was over 70. | 
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