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I don't think so. People don't give Jerome Powell the credit he deserves. I think he (and the Fed as a whole) will stick to their guns, they'll raise rates and keep them high for much longer than people expect. And they'll put a lid to inflation pressures. Of course, they'll be criticized by lots of armchair quarterbacks that they are destroying the economy, they are lackeys of the rich, or god knows what, but they'll do the job they are supposed to do, fight inflation. They've been doing this for more than a year now.


I would believe that except that the rate hikes have no endgame. If he let the rates decline - wouldn’t inflation start again?

It’s like having a car with brakes and a stuck gas pedal. You can get the car to slow down but you aren’t really in control…


> If he let the rates decline - wouldn’t inflation start again?

Maybe it would. But why exactly are rates supposed to be low? Historically 5% rates were, if anything, low not high.




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