Why surging oil prices ‘may bite the hands’ of the Fed

03/05/2026 Notes in the Margin

Rising oil prices are “forcing reevaluations of previous assumptions about US inflation and the Federal Reserve’s path for interest rates.”

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Why Money Has Value at All

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