The way I read Yellen today is the way I read Bernanke in 2006 β as saying in effect, we are going to hike rates irrespective of how flat the yield curve gets. Is this how incoming Chair Jay Powell sees things? If so, the market is going to be very surprised and short-dated Treasuries are not going to be where you want to overweight. And letβs remember, Bernanke ultimately proved wrong on this one because we soon had a downturn, just as the yield curve was signalling we would.
Definitely playing with fire there.