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#Markets: The slowdown everywhere but government spending. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business.

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#Markets: The slowdown everywhere but government spending. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/fed-biden-economy-inflation-credit-00118509

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.5

The American economy, I welcome Elizabeth Peek, a Communist, the Hill, a Communist

0:17.2

Fox News, much on Fox Business to comment on the American economy waiting for the Federal

0:22.2

Reserve to decide the data is this or that. At the last Federal Reserve meeting you will

0:28.8

remember Mr. Powell says we're going to watch the data. The expectation was there is another

0:34.3

hike coming between now and forever. There is no expectation any longer about a cut this

0:40.9

year. Therefore the markets have been hesitating, going sideways, asking questions about 24.

0:47.7

There are reports that order books for 24 are not filling up. There are reports of firms

0:54.1

being cautious. I mean big time publicly traded firms. However, Liz, a very good evening

1:00.2

to you. The Fed wants us to trust the data. I trust the data, but this morning I believe

1:05.8

there was a report on another Bloomberg of the FT that we have one federal governor saying

1:11.4

we're going to do another hike before the end of the year. Another federal governor

1:14.6

saying we're not going to do any more hikes before the end of the year. Another federal

1:19.5

governor saying we're going to keep these rates high for some time to quell inflation. It's

1:25.6

like they're doing a good good cop bad cop. What kind of cop on us? How do you hear these different

1:31.5

voices, Liz? Good evening to you. Good evening. I think there's been a pretty remarkable shift

1:36.6

in mood and expectation over a pretty short period of time. And we're talking really two or three

1:41.6

weeks of frankly, not particularly consistent data that has led to this shift in expectations.

1:49.3

But I think it does kind of go back to what the Fed was signaling, which is to sum it up higher

1:55.2

for longer. I think most everyone has now come around to thinking that. And why is that? Well,

2:00.8

the inflation data definitely has gotten better, John. The numbers have coming down,

2:06.0

are coming down. The recent PCE numbers were pretty good, definitely showing decelerating

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