Has the Fed already tightened too much?

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Deutsche with some alternative methods for measuring US financial conditions. I completely agree that the market has the extent of rate hikes wrong. But I still see a few more before it all goes to shit. Almost by definition the Fed has to over-tighten before it stops. 

A Volcker-like rise in the shadow rate

Several months ago we highlighted that broader measures of the Fed’s monetary policy stance, such as our shadow rate, began to show the most aggressive tightening since the Greenspan hawkish shock in 1994 (see “A Greenspanian shock to the monetary stance”).1

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.