Jackson Hole’s Greatest Hits Keep Focus on Fed’s Annual Retreat

Every August, investors around the world obsess over what’s going on in a tiny Wyoming resort on the edge of the magnificent Teton mountain range. This year they can listen directly, because it will be conducted virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic and streamed live to the public for the first time.

Over the past two decades, central bankers have used the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual symposium in Jackson Hole to plot out and signal changes in monetary policy.