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Sep 07 2025

Unintended Consequences?

  • Sep 7, 2025

There are unmistakable parallels between September’s likely Fed rate cut and the initial lowering of rates preceding the GFC. In each case, despite leading inflation gauges still trending up, a housing slump and deteriorating labor market served to justify the move. In 2007, after the Fed cut, measures of real growth failed to respond and inflation, in fact, shot higher.

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Doug Ramsey / Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager