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The Fed's Hidden Inflation Trap
With the Federal Reserve Funds rate holding at 3.75 percent and core CPI ticking up to 337.8 in August, inflation is refusing to die quietly. Lucas and Luna break down why headline numbers are misleading right now. They examine how tariffs are artificially inflating prices on everyday goods while wage growth remains sticky. The conversation explores whether the central bank can ignore these structural price shocks or if they must adjust their policy stance sooner than markets expect. We look at the disconnect between soft labor data and hard consumer prices, asking what happens when the yield…
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