#LondonCalling: #MrMarket: The Federal Reserve faces soft or hard or no landing. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
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#LondonCalling: #MrMarket: The Federal Reserve faces soft or hard or no landing. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-inflation-january-2023-consumer-price-index-f080e30b?mod=hp_lead_pos2
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| 0:37.7 | They're visiting with Joseph Sternberg who writes political economics column. He's based |
| 0:42.2 | in London for the Wall Street Journal editorial board. We go to the headlines in the Wall Street |
| 0:46.3 | Journal in these last hours. Inflation eases to 6.4%, but pace of moderation slow is subhead. |
| 0:54.6 | Lewis inflation moderated only slightly last month on an annual basis as price increases |
| 1:01.4 | firmed up at the start of the year. Joseph, this is monetary policy and there's something |
| 1:07.8 | of witchcraft about it because you're talking about the future or without a crystal ball |
| 1:14.1 | on the basis of the past. Right now, inflation is high. 6.4% would scare anybody except for |
| 1:20.8 | when it was 6.5. The Federal Reserve says its target is 2% inflation, which means I think |
| 1:28.5 | that we're not close to a victory here. However, in these last weeks, there have been |
| 1:34.5 | fanciful interpretations of where we are in the monetary cycle. The one I love, well, |
| 1:40.8 | I'll start with the possibility. One is soft landing. The Federal Reserve is firmly |
| 1:44.8 | in control. Drone Pal knows exactly what he's doing after spending some time in 21 and |
| 1:50.3 | 22, not knowing what he was doing. The jumbo hikes of last year and the quarter hikes |
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