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You folks know that since the virus crisis, I have erred on the side of “the Fed will surprise markets with their easiness.” I managed to get that call correct. Yet over the last couple of weeks, I have wrongly assumed the Fed might ease up on the rhetoric as market stress has diminished.
If you had asked me to forecast yesterday’s Powell press confere…