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Wharton Professor Urges the Fed to ‘Bite the Bullet’ and Defend the US Dollar — Warns About Bitcoin Taking Over

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Wharton Professor Urges the Fed to "Bite the Bullet" and Defend the US Dollar — Warns About Bitcoin Taking Over


A finance professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has warned of “bitcoin taking over.” He added that the Fed “has been terribly wrong over the last year” about inflation and must now act to defend the U.S. dollar. Finance Professor Urges the Fed to Take Action to Defend the U.S. Dollar


Wharton’s finance professor Jeremy Siegel shared his view on inflation, “bitcoin taking over,” and the need for the Federal Reserve to defend the U.S. dollar in an interview with CNBC Friday.


Siegel is Russell E. Palmer Professor Emeritus of Finance at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on demographics, financial markets, long-run asset returns, and macroeconomics.


Commenting on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicating last week that the first rate hike will be in March and will likely be 25 basis points, Siegel criticized that the Fed is already behind and should be making a more aggressive move.


“They’re going to have to do much more than that … I’m actually disappointed that Chairman Powell did not look at the history that this is not a time for us to slow down,” the Wharton finance professor stressed, elaborating: The Fed has been terribly wrong over the last year. I mean, all this temporary inflation. Look at the protection they did for inflation last year — so way below what actually happened all the way to December.


He said last week that it would be a “big policy mistake” for the Fed to slow down interest rate hikes because of the situation in Ukraine.


While stating that “Jay Powell is a very good man” and “a good communicator,” Professor Siegel stressed: “The Fed has been very wrong and they are going to have to catch up and they really have to admit they’ve got to bite the bullet here.”


Regarding bitcoin, he urged the Federal Reserve to take action to defend the U.S. dollar, emphasizing: We talk about bitcoin taking over. We’ve got to defend the dollar.


The professor has been noting the rise in popularity of bitcoin for quite some time. In January, he said that BTC has replaced gold as an inflation hedge for millennials.


He also warned that the Federal Reserve is “so far behind the curve that we have a lot of inflation that is embedded in,” predicting that “The Fed is going to have to hike many more times than what the market expects.” Tags in this story bitcoin taking over, Fed Chair, fed wrong, fed wrong about inflation, Federal Reserve, federal reserve wrong, finance professor, inflation, interest rates, Jay Powell, Jeremy Siege bitcoin, Jeremy Siege crypto, Jeremy Siege cryptocurrency, jerome powell, rate hikes, wharton professor


What do you think about Professor Siegel’s comments? Let us know in the comments section below. Kevin Helms


A student of Austrian Economics, Kevin found Bitcoin in 2011 and has been an evangelist ever since. His interests lie in Bitcoin security, open-source systems, network effects and the intersection between economics and cryptography. IMF Warns Ongoing War in Europe Will Have a "Severe Impact on the Global Economy" ECONOMICS | 2 hours ago US Treasury Yield Curve Highlights Recession Signals, Analyst Thinks Fallout Will Be "10x Worse Than the Great Depression" ECONOMICS | 14 hours ago


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