John Authers, Columnist

Worrying About the Fed Is So Last Year. Here’s Why

Earnings matter more to the market now, and there’s confidence about US inflation. Don’t forget Japan and China.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a conference in Sweden.

Photographer: Erik Flyg/Bloomberg
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This is hard to believe, but maybe everyone can start to worry a little less about the Fed? Because the last few weeks certainly suggest that the central bank is giving investors far less reason to lose their sleep than it did all of last year.