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All right, Sam and Tracy, here's the deal, okay?

We're recording this on Tuesday.

This episode is gonna come out Friday, so we're recording this before the big Fed decision.

So how about we plan for this? I'm going to ask you guys what your Fed forecast is, and then if, and then I'm going to ask you again,

and we can record two versions of it.

And then in the actual episode, we'll use whichever one was correct.

Does that sound like a good plan?

I'm just going to hedge my bets and

say I think they're going to cut by 37.5 basis points. I mean a davish

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