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It's entirely possible that this is the only thing we're going to hear from Jay Powell

on this program today. You know, we have the ability to be careful at this point and move

carefully and that's what we're planning to do. From American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai. Resolute is Wednesday today, the 20th of September. It is always to have

you along, everybody. And look, just because I said we might not hear more from Jay Powell today,

does not mean we are not going to talk about Fed's announcement on interest rates and this economy.

We're just going to do it different a couple of weeks ago before the central bank went into

its usual pre-meeting quiet period. We got Austin Gools B on the phone. He's the president

of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, of course. And I asked him about what he calls the golden path,

which is Gools B speak for soft landing. All right. So look, if you're saying it's possible to get

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