By guest contributor Ethan Xing, analyst, Atchison Consultants The focus of financial markets in 2018 has been on a number of eye-catching events, such as the “tit for tat” impositions of tariffs between US and China, the US Republican tax reforms and the US-North Korea summit. None of these issues seemed to weaken the US Federal Reserve’s resolve in tightening monetary policy. So far in 2018, the US federal funds rate has...