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Fears of Ratemaggedon are overdone

Fed Chair Jerome Powell fuelled fears of a Ratemaggedon with a hawkish performance in his press conference. But even with both wage and underlying price inflation running at near 40-year highs, we suspect that disappointing real economic growth this year will limit the Fed to 100bp of tightening.

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