As the Federal Reserve raises US interest rates in an effort to quell inflation, are there any lessons to be learned from similar previous episodes?
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In a recent Bloomberg article, a group of economists voiced their fears that the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight may create an unnecessarily deep downturn.
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