The Fed’s “Insurance” Rate Cuts Didn’t Work. Now For The Emergency Cuts

• The Fed’s “Insurance” Rate Cuts Didn’t Work. Now For The Emergency Cuts
  by JOHN RUBINO, https://www.dollarcollapse.com/
  Pity the guys now running the Fed. They’ve inherited an economy that requires ever-bigger infusions of new credit and ever-lower interest rates to avoid financial cardiac arrest. But with interest rates already perilously close to zero the usual leeway is no longer there.
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  Making the best of a bad hand, Fed chair Jerome Powell has been cutting the Fed Funds rate but managing expectations for future cuts by calling the current ones “recalibration” and “insurance.” In other words, “don’t expect a quick excursion into steeply-negative territory. In fact this latest cut might be all there is.”
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  But the economy, like any addict, is profoundly uncomfortable with not knowing where the next fix is coming from and is behaving accordingly. From just the past couple of days’ headlines:
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