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After mixed inflationary signals, Federal Reserve should hit ‘pause’ button

By Quin Hillyer
Published May 10, 2023 9:17pm ET
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After mixed inflationary signals, Federal Reserve should hit ‘pause’ button
While the inflation report released today is not encouraging, it’s also not a disaster. There is good reason for the Federal Reserve Board to pause its series of interest-rate hikes and instead wait and watch while keeping rates steady. I write this as a decades-long anti-inflation hawk. Rather than inflation-fighting being a co-equal goal for […]

While the inflation report released today is not encouraging, it’s also not a disaster. There is good reason for the Federal Reserve Board to pause its series of interest-rate hikes and instead wait and watch while keeping rates steady.

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