With conflicting messages from employment and inflation, the Federal Reserve is shifting into risk management mode. That’s my takeaway from the decision to reduce short-term rates by 25 basis points and Chair Jay Powell’s press conference comments that there is “no risk-free path” for making decisions about monetary policy. The deeply divided vote tally at…
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