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BumRushDaShow

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21. They are in a bind
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:19 AM
Friday

ONE outlet - CNBC - Fed forecasts only one rate cut in 2026, a more conservative outlook than expected claimed that Powell only wanted just one more cut before the end of 2026, whereas the other news/business sites seemed to ignore that and stick with reporting the 2 cuts this year.

CNBC looked at one of your parameters that DID release this month - the "dot plot".



(the Fed has it in a PDF as part of their report - https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcprojtabl20250917.pdf)


The 1 cut would make sense given the rising inflation part too, in order to attempt to keep a "lid" on it (as I have observed with the pattern on their graphs of the current rate vs the monthly inflation fluctuations, which was actually fascinating to visualize ).

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