But hiking rates in the face of slowing inflation, a dubious growth outlook, and obvious banking stresses is not the sort of thing that ends with epic histories. Jay Powell is about the furthest thing one could imagine from a poetic Henry V leading his troops into battle, and elevated inflation is no Hundred Years’ War.
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