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Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter point

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10 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bediger4000 ◴[17 Sep 25 18:09 UTC] No.45279279[source]▶
Inflation seems to be creeping up. Unemployment is reasonably low. How is this justified, in light of what the Fed did in similar situations, and with respect to the recent "soft landing" of the economy, something that's very rarely been done in the past
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alephnerd ◴[17 Sep 25 18:15 UTC] No.45279354[source]▶
If you remove tech, healthcare, and real estate, we are in a recession [0]

[0] - https://www.ft.com/content/e9be3e3f-2efe-42f7-b2d2-8ab3efea2...

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nis0s ◴[17 Sep 25 19:18 UTC] No.45280206[source]▶
Is it reasonable to expect an economy to produce jobs across of all sectors equally? Is that viable or expected in a free market model? I don’t think so, but I am happy to be corrected.
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1. alephnerd ◴[17 Sep 25 19:36 UTC] No.45280443[source]▶
No country is a true "free market", and those sectors which represent the majority of American employment are declining.

Inflation at this point is being caused by variables that cannot be controlled by monetary policy, and those policy changes are unlikely to be solved by this administration.