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Despite openly admitting the data may be flawed, Williams still voted for a December rate cut, while reassuring us there’s no “urgent need” to keep easing.

In other words, monetary authorities are flying blind, proudly steering an economy they can’t properly measure, juggling a softening labor market against inflation figures they quietly concede might be wrong. The perfect recipe for the upcoming inflationary bust which will be remembered as the ‘Trump Stagflation’

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