{"id":15827,"date":"2022-12-19T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/the-federal-reserves-pursuit-of-a-reverse-wealth-effect-is-undermining-crypto\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:48:19","slug":"the-federal-reserves-pursuit-of-a-reverse-wealth-effect-is-undermining-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/the-federal-reserves-pursuit-of-a-reverse-wealth-effect-is-undermining-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Reserve’s pursuit of a ‘reverse wealth effect’ is undermining crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Federal Reserve\u2019s strategy to hike interest rates may continue, making it difficult for the crypto industry to bounce back. For crypto assets to become the hedge against inflation, the industry needs to explore ways to decouple crypto from traditional markets. Decentralized finance (DeFi) can perhaps offer a way out by breaking away from legacy financial models.<\/p>\n

How Federal Reserve policies are affecting crypto<\/h2>\n

In the 1980s, Paul Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, introduced the interest hiking policy to control inflation. Volcker raised interest rates to over 20%, forcing the economy into a recession by reducing people\u2019s purchasing capacity. The strategy worked, and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) went down from 14.85% to 2.5%. Even now, the Federal Reserve continues to use the same methodology to bring down high inflation rates.<\/p>\n

In 2022, core U.S. inflation reached a 40-year high, making the Federal Reserve consistently hike interest rates throughout the year. This has negatively hit the crypto market. Mike McGlone, the Senior Commodity Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, explained that the Fed\u2018s \u201csledgehammer\u201d has \u201cbeen pressuring crypto this year.\u201d McGlone believes that the Fed\u2019s policies could lead to a crash that is worse than the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n