- In 1966 inflation accelerated because of Johnson’s “Guns and Butter” policy
- When the Fed hiked rates to fight inflation, duration mismatches caught the banks napping
- The result was a rapid collapse in lending and serious collateral damage in real estate
- The analogy is clear; will FOMC hubris come back to haunt them?
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