{"id":8979,"date":"2009-06-24T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2009-06-24T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:34:23","slug":"the-fed-translated-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8979\/the-fed-translated-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fed Translated….."},"content":{"rendered":"

In keeping with my practice of translating the Fed’s statements, here goes this one:<\/p>\n

“Move along, keep moving, nothing to see here folks!   Business as usual!”<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

They didn’t do a thing to address the bond market concerns or to allow that things are changing at all.   Expect mortgage rates to drift up a small amount on the lack of news…..<\/p>\n

Tom Vanderwell
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The Fed Translated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In keeping with my practice of translating the Fed’s statements, here goes this one: “Move along, keep moving, nothing to see here folks!   Business as usual!” They didn’t do a thing to address the bond market concerns or to allow that things are changing at all.   Expect mortgage rates to drift up a small amount […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,29,26],"tags":[288],"class_list":{"0":"post-8979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-lending","9":"tag-the-fed-translated","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8184,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8184\/the-fed-translated-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":8979,"position":0},"title":"The Fed Translated….","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"April 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, it's that time again.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Fed met yesterday and today and came out with their announcement this afternoon at 2:15 pm.\u00a0\u00a0 I promise that this one won't be as long as the last Fed Translated was.As usual, my comments are in bold and italics.....April 29, 2009For Immediate Release:Information received\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Group Therapy"","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6769,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6769\/the-fed-translated-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":8979,"position":1},"title":"The Fed Translated…..","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"January 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom here\u2026.\u00a0 Sorry for the delay, but better late than never\u2026.. 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