The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Joseph Wang, known online as Fed Guy, is a former senior trader on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Open Market Trading Desk who now explains monetary mechanics and money-market plumbing through his research site fedguy.com. A former attorney and credit analyst, he is the author of the book Central Banking 101 (2021), sells online courses through centralbanking101.com, and serves as Chief Investment Officer of Monetary Macro. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and an MSc in Financial Economics from Oxford. As of July 2026 his X account @FedGuy12 shows roughly 195K followers and his YouTube channel about 32K subscribers, and he appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, CNBC and financial podcasts.
