Finding meaning in the Fed’s new financial index

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Last week the Federal Reserve revealed yet another financial conditions index.

By Alphaville’s count, this is roughly the 6000th gauge of how relaxed or restrictive financial conditions are. It’s not even the first (or second, or third) out of the Federal Reserve system. Even Norway has one these…