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Bloomberg.com and of course on the Bloomberg. And of course, on the Bloomberg. She's the chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley and Ellen I was reminded of what happened about a month ago.

There was a flurry of emails among team surveillance.

Ellen Zentner changes her call now says there's going to be a March fed move.

It must be March 2nd or something like that. there's going to be a March-Feed move.

They all.

Or something like that.

Help us process what we got from the Fed today,

this week rather, the minutes from that FOMC.

I mean, what does it tell you about the path forward?

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