The Kevin Warsh Fed and the Rate Cut Dilemma: Employment Illusions and Stagflation Scenarios [EN]
"The magic of statistics can massage indicators, but it cannot hide the screams of a broken physical supply chain. Strong-looking employment data is not a badge proving economic health, but rather a scream of structural labor shortages created by blocked labor supply. Kevin Warsh, who takes office this Friday, is about to embark on a dangerous tightrope walk—the most elaborately orchestrated 'redefinition of indicators' in central banking history—caught between the White House's fierce pressure for rate cuts and unbridled inflation hard data."
— System View Macroeconomic Framework
* The original data and baseline analysis of this macroeconomic shift are available in the Korean report. -> Korean Version
Prologue: A Market Observer's Perspective
In May 2026, U.S. monetary policy is sinking into a swamp of massive contradictions. Just two days before the official inauguration (Friday, May 22) of Kevin Warsh, nominated by President Donald Trump as the 17th Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the data striking the market is nothing short of devastating. The ADP NER Pulse, a high-frequency private employment indicator, smashed all-time records, posting a staggering 42,250 job additions on a weekly basis. This 'Good News,' which any rational market observer should be cheering for, is currently acting as the most lethal 'Poison' for the capital market. This is because the firewall of inflation has already collapsed. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit a three-year high of 3.8% YoY, and the leading indicator, the Producer Price Index (PPI), is showing a phenomenal 6.0% annual surge. The White House growls like a beast demanding "cut rates immediately," while hard data warns "we must raise rates right now and unleash the hounds." Starting now, we will deeply dissect the architecture of the brutal policy dilemma facing incoming Chairman Kevin Warsh on this extreme confrontation line.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The core macroeconomic detonator to be addressed in Part 1 of this report is the 'compound fracture of the supply chain hidden behind strong employment data.' The public praises the infinite fundamental stamina of the U.S. economy upon seeing 40,000 weekly job additions, but the System View directly confronts the 'Optical Illusion' hidden beneath the surface. The current employment explosion is not the result of companies earning well and expanding factories. Due to the 'Chilling Effect' induced by the Trump 2.0 administration's aggressive crackdown and deportation of immigrants, the blue-collar labor supply—the capillaries of the real economy—has been completely paralyzed. What we see is the outcome of an abnormal bottleneck where marginal companies are begrudgingly 'hoarding' the remaining workforce.
To resolve this contradiction, Kevin Warsh has officially formalized an elaborate bypass in his confirmation hearing: abandoning Core PCE, the central bank's traditional compass, and adopting the 'Trimmed Mean PCE,' which can induce a statistical illusion. We must probabilistically track the narrative of illusory victory this indicator redefinition will bring, alongside the possibility of a head-on collision with the hawkish Shadow Leadership established internally by former Chairman Jerome Powell, in order to preemptively respond to the impending macroeconomic tantrum.
01. Macroeconomic Paradox: Monstrous Employment Data and the Poison of Inflation (Hard Data)
└ The Conflict Between 4.3% Unemployment and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
Under the traditional Phillips Curve framework of macroeconomics, the current U.S. labor market has moved past excess demand and entered a state of perfect 'overheating.' The current unemployment rate sits at 4.3%, tightly hugging the Fed's estimated natural rate of unemployment (U*). The runaway ADP NER Pulse of 42,250 weekly additions sustains household disposable income, powerfully pulling aggregate demand upward. However, this robustness has returned as a boomerang, completely blocking the path of disinflation (price deceleration).
The numbers shown by the April macro data are cold. The CPI settling at 3.8% proves that the downward rigidity of prices exceeds imagination, and the PPI, surging 1.4% MoM and 6.0% YoY, foreshadows that the cost shock in the manufacturing and production stages will soon be passed directly onto consumers. As we covered in our recent U.S. Treasury Yield Tantrum report, the breakthrough of WTI past $104 due to the prolonged armed conflict in the Middle East (Iran) and Trump's high-tariff stance are accumulating structural supply shocks. Considering the current baseline interest rate (3.50%~3.75%), when substituting the 3.0% Core PCE, the real yield is a mere 0.50%~0.75%. Despite being woefully insufficient to constrain prices, the White House is intimidating the Fed into cutting rates.
[System View Live Data: Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQ) - The Guillotine of the Discount Rate]
* Live QQQ Chart: As monstrous employment data and the 6% PPI surge tie the Fed's hands and feet, this is the scene of a historic watershed where the heavily capitalized Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) tech stocks must withstand fatal discount rate pressure ahead of Kevin Warsh's inaugural address.
02. Optical Illusion of the Labor Market: Massive ICE Deportations and the Chilling Effect
└ Distortion of Employment Data Unearthed via NBER Empirical Analysis
Why doesn't the employment data bend even under the pressure of high interest rates? The System View exposes this ugly architecture based on the latest NBER research and the empirical paper 『Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0』 by economists Chloe East and Elizabeth Cox.
The massive crackdowns on undocumented immigrants deployed by the Trump 2.0 administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not induce a 'zero-sum game' in the labor market. Rather, indiscriminate public arrest operations triggered an extreme 'Chilling Effect' across the entire labor market. A tragedy unfolded where even immigrants who were not deported but remained on the books refused to come to work due to the fear of crackdowns, causing the employment rate of the remaining immigrant cohort to plunge an additional 4%. U.S.-born citizens thoroughly avoided the rough framing work on construction sites, harvesting labor on farms, and childcare services, while employers lacked the margins to raise wages enough to attract them.
Ultimately, as basic immigrant workers vanished from construction sites, entire housing projects shut down, which led to the simultaneous firing of the U.S.-born managers who supervised those sites. Statistically, a structural chain destruction was confirmed where for every 6 immigrant workers that disappeared from the local labor market, 1 job for a U.S.-born worker was actually lost. This is the real reason the U.S.-born unemployment rate, which was around 4.0% during the Biden era, has now spiked to 4.3%~4.6%. Therefore, the 40,000+ job increase is not an expansion of the economy, but merely the 'optical illusion of a paralyzed supply chain' where companies facing workforce shortages are forced to hoard labor by paying high wages for survival.
[Macro Mechanism] ICE Crackdown Fear and the Distortion Path of Real Employment Indicators
| Analysis Phase | Action Mechanism (Policy & Human Action) | Indicator Output Effect (Impact) |
|---|---|---|
| Phase 1: Physical Removal | Extensive arrest of illegal immigrants and massive deportation operations deployed by ICE. | 1st Shock to Blue-Collar Labor Supply |
| Phase 2: Chilling Effect | Fear of indiscriminate public crackdowns causes all remaining immigrants (legal/undocumented) to abandon economic activity. | Additional 4% drop in remaining immigrant employment rate |
| Phase 3: Mismatch | U.S.-born workers avoid entering 3D industries (agriculture, construction, childcare) and failure to inject replacement labor. | Collapse of inter-industry complementarity, supply chain paralysis |
| Phase 4: Distorted Output | Marginal companies elevate the value of personnel for survival and engage in wage-driven Labor Hoarding. | Optical illusion of ADP NER Pulse surging by 42,250 weekly |
03. The Policy Bypass: Kevin Warsh's Intellectual Trajectory and Chameleonic Flexibility
└ Hawk or Dove: The Art of Academically Packaging White House Demands
Incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is an elite who has traversed the practicalities of Wall Street (Morgan Stanley M&A), the frontlines of politics (National Economic Council), and academia (Hoover Institution). He was the one who most sharply criticized the Jerome Powell regime's past miscalculation of inflation as a 'Transitory' phenomenon, calling it "the biggest policy error in the last 40 to 50 years." On the surface, he appears to be a cold-blooded disciplinarian (Hawk) whose top priorities are inflation control and quantitative tightening (QT).
However, peeling back his macro trajectory over time reveals that his true weapon is not 'principle,' but 'chameleonic flexibility.' As economist Skanda Amarnath acutely pointed out, Warsh's stance has morphed dramatically depending on the party controlling the White House. Just after the 2009 Global Financial Crisis during the Obama administration, when the economy was scraping the bottom and easing policies were desperately needed, he worried about surging lending and argued for 'early tightening.' Conversely, in 2018 during Trump's first term, when the economy reached full employment and prices hit targets, he wrote an op-ed in the WSJ stating "we must end tightening," presenting dovish arguments that perfectly aligned with Trump's demands for low interest rates. Using the Fed's 'independence' as a shield to actually justify the blunt demands of the political sphere with the most sophisticated institutional language—that is the core architecture through which Kevin Warsh breaks through dilemmas.
04. A Masterstroke or Deception in Monetary Policy: The Strategic Introduction of 'Trimmed Mean PCE'
└ The Illusory Victory of 2.3% and the Revaluation of Real Yields
Currently, America's core hard data, the Core PCE, remains sticky at 3.0%. If left as is, Chair Warsh can find no economic justification whatsoever to grant President Trump's demand for rate cuts. Therefore, the highly sophisticated monetary policy trick he pulled out during his Senate confirmation hearing is shifting the benchmark to the 'Trimmed Mean PCE' calculated by the Dallas Fed.
While the existing Core PCE calculates the average by statically excluding only the 'food' and 'energy' categories, the Trimmed Mean PCE mechanically slices off the extreme outliers showing the most severe price volatility every month. For instance, extreme noise like moving and storage service prices skyrocketing by 384% in early 2026, or telephone equipment prices plunging by 50%, is completely deleted, much like removing the highest/lowest scores in gymnastics scoring. The result is magical. Currently, the Trimmed Mean PCE points to 2.3%, a whopping 0.7 percentage points lower than Core PCE.
This figure of 2.3% is the perfect pretext to declare an 'illusory victory,' claiming they have essentially reached the Fed's target (2.0%). Subtracting 2.3% from the base rate (3.50%~3.75%) causes the Real Yield to jump to 1.2%~1.45%. Using this as evidence, Warsh secures the perfect alibi: "Current monetary policy is overly restrictive compared to the economy's fundamental stamina, so we must normalize (cut) rates to achieve a soft landing."
[System View Data] Inflation Metric Calculation Mechanisms and Statistical Illusion
* Analysis Summary: To meet the White House's demand for rate cuts, Chair Warsh will attempt to forcefully assemble a macroeconomic narrative that "the war on inflation is won" by adopting the lowest measuring 'Trimmed Mean PCE' as the implicit policy target.
05. Bank of America's (BofA) Warning: New Biases and the Swamp of Policy Misjudgment
└ Trimming Extremes Conceals Brewing Inflation Momentum
However, Wall Street will not sit idly by regarding this statistical sleight of hand. Aditya Bhave, an economist at Bank of America (BofA), strongly warned that Warsh's indicator reset could mislead the market into an irreversible catastrophe.
The trimmed mean model, which mechanically slices off extremes, induces 'New biases' that treat and conceal even the 'true inflation momentum' created by structural supply chain constraints in specific industries or permanent demand shifts as mere noise. In the early stages of Middle East conflicts or Trump's sweeping tariff bombs spilling over into the broader economy's price system, it is normal for price indicators to jump spasmodically. However, the trimmed mean ignores these danger signals, which can result in the fatal outcome of making the Fed pop the champagne too early amidst the flames of stagflation (a dovish miscalculation). Changing the rhetoric does not erase the contradictions of the real economy.
06. Another Bypass: The Blind Spot of the 'AI Hyper-productivity' Theory
└ The Supply-Side Magic Dust Meant to Neutralize the Phillips Curve
Statistical trickery like the Trimmed Mean PCE alone cannot fully persuade the market. To defend against the fundamental question (the dilemma of the Phillips Curve), "Why cut rates when employment is so robust?", the second theoretical weapon Kevin Warsh has drawn is the 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven productivity revolution.'
Warsh's argument goes like this: Because AI like ChatGPT exponentially boosts corporate productivity, even if wages rise, companies can defend their margins without raising product prices (inflation). In other words, the logic is that a 'Goldilocks' economy—where explosive employment and price stability coexist—has arrived, so it's safe to cut rates without worrying about inflation. However, when deconstructed through the cold gaze of the System View, this optimism has two fatal flaws.
First, energy inflation triggered by Capital Expenditure (Capex). As Big Tech companies sweep up power grids and data centers to build AI infrastructure, they are first detonating 'commodity inflation' like natural gas and electricity before AI can even induce disinflation (price drops).
Second, the irreplaceability of physical labor. As noted in Part 1, what is currently choking the U.S. economy is the 'paralysis of physical labor' (agriculture, construction). AI might speed up legal reviews by tenfold, but it cannot harvest strawberries under the scorching sun or pour concrete for houses. It is absolute hubris to attempt to suppress national stagflation purely through white-collar productivity without resolving the collapse of physical supply chains.
07. Internal Power Struggle: The Rebellion of the Hawks and Powell's 'Shadow Leadership'
└ The Iron Rule of Majority Vote Tightens Around Warsh's Neck
No matter how heavily Kevin Warsh arms himself with 'Trimmed Mean' and 'AI Productivity' to execute Trump's directives, the most massive and realistic barrier he must overcome is the uncontrollable division within the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
In the April meeting, an astonishing 4 out of 12 members cast a Dissent against the decision to hold interest rates. This is the worst division since 1992. Dovish members (Steven Mirin) blatantly demand cuts, while regional Fed presidents (hawks) like Neel Kashkari and Lorie Logan fiercely resist, declaring it unacceptable for the statement to even include an 'accommodative bias.'
An even bigger issue is the presence of 'Shadow Chairman' Jerome Powell. Breaking a 70-year precedent where outgoing chairs also resigned their Board of Governors seat, Powell declared he will hold his seat until the bitter end in January 2028. This signifies a resolute determination to block external pressure from the Trump administration with his own body, placing a massive central pivot that rallies existing hawkish members right in the middle of the board.
The Fed's monetary policy is determined not by the Chairman's dogma, but by the consent of a Committee majority. If incoming Chair Warsh attempts to force unreasonable rate cuts using unproven AI theories or manipulated indicators as excuses, the hawkish coalition led by Powell will exercise an official Veto and ruthlessly crush it. The countdown to an unprecedented event in history where a Fed Chairman loses a vote on a policy he proposed—an 'Institutional Gridlock'—has begun.
08. Tectonic Shift in Asset Markets: Portfolio Collapse and Allocation Strategies for Survival
└ The Crumbling 60/40 Portfolio and the Terror of 'Real Yield Compression'
Regardless of which scenario the Warsh-led Fed chooses, the tranquil era of 'low inflation-stable rate cuts' that dominated the market for over a decade is permanently over. It is the era of 'Promise and Pressure' warned of by J.P. Morgan. Structural increases in inflation and geopolitical fragmentation are no longer Tail Risks, but the core constants determining portfolio returns.
Particularly, if Chair Warsh forces unreasonable rate cuts using the previously deconstructed 'Trimmed Mean PCE' as an implicit target (Scenario A), nominal rates will be artificially lowered, but felt inflation in the real economy will remain high, inevitably causing 'Real Yield Compression'. In this environment, the traditional '60% stocks / 40% bonds allocation model'—which assumes bonds rise and stocks are defended when rates fall—perfectly collapses, leaving both stocks and bonds bleeding simultaneously. Discarding complacent index investing, a sweeping, cold-hearted structural overhaul across all asset classes is essential.
[Action Plan] Asset Allocation Strategy for the Kevin Warsh Regime (System View)
09. System Fracture Defense Logic: Public Illusions and Macroeconomic Refutations
If we are to survive this massive monetary policy inflection point, we must coldly shatter the illusions planted by shallow news headlines and Wall Street optimists. We deconstruct the fatal public misunderstandings surrounding Kevin Warsh's Fed and the true macro logic operating beneath.
└ Q1. "Whether it's White House pressure or not, if the Fed cuts rates, liquidity is released. Isn't that unconditionally good news for the stock market?"
[Defense Logic]: This is the result of brains pickled in the outdated formulas of the past low-inflation era. Cutting rates under political pressure when inflation is not fully tamed (PPI surging 6%) does not mean a 'liquidity party' but rather a 'Policy Error and the collapse of monetary credibility.'
The market is not stupid. If the Fed artificially cuts short-term rates, Bond Vigilantes—judging that the Fed has lost control of inflation—will fiercely dump long-term Treasuries, shooting 10-year and 30-year yields to the moon. Surging long-term yields mercilessly crush the discount rates of Nasdaq tech stocks, shattering valuations. 'Unjustified rate cuts' are the worst bad news that stimulates stagflation fears.
└ Q2. "ADP employment is growing by 40k a week and unemployment is 4.3%. Isn't the economy incredibly strong? Aren't recession worries unfounded?"
[Defense Logic]: This is an 'optical illusion' that looks only at the surface of the numbers and fails to see the broken bones inside. Current employment figures are not a 'healthy expansion' of companies growing their businesses and hiring. As physical labor supply chains (agriculture, construction, childcare) are paralyzed by the Trump administration's aggressive deportation of immigrants, marginal companies terrified of severe labor shortages are forced to pay high wages and engage in 'Labor Hoarding'—this is the 'scream of a supply bottleneck.' This abnormal labor expenditure ultimately gnaws at corporate margins and becomes the detonator for chain bankruptcies.
└ Q3. "If the Chairman adopts the Trimmed Mean PCE and declares inflation has hit the 2% range, won't the market be relieved and view it positively?"
[Defense Logic]: Does manipulating the scale make the fat on your body disappear? Even if they massage the indicators with a 'trimmed mean' that cuts off statistical extremes to create a figure of 2.3%, the prices of groceries we pay at the mart, gas at the pump, and rent are terrifyingly rising. While the Fed engages in mental gymnastics through indicator manipulation, the gap between the perceived inflation of the real economy and nominal interest rates will reach an extreme, and eventually, the true invoice of a consumption slowdown and dollar debasement will hit our accounts.
10. Implications from an Investor's Perspective (Exit & Entry)
The Fed's division, where Powell's hawkish discipline and Warsh's dovish compromise collide head-on. Clumsily burying your money in index-tracking ETFs (SPY, QQQ) inside this ring of chaos is like walking off a cliff blindfolded. You must set practical exit and entry triggers to mechanically transfer your money at every macro inflection point.
└ Entry Triggers
① [High Certainty/Inflation Hedge] Gold (GLD) & Silver (SLV) — Evacuation to Real Money
Entry Rationale: If Chair Warsh turns a blind eye to inflation indicators and forces rate cuts, this is a declaration of 'abandoning the purchasing power of the paper dollar.' When the flames of inflation reignite, absolute scarce assets not controlled by central banks (gold) guarantee the most certain returns. Firmly pack over 20% of your portfolio with physical precious metals or related ETFs.
② [Value Defense] Consumer Staples & Blue-Chip Infra/Energy — Pricing Power
Entry Rationale: In an environment where the PPI surges 6%, only monopolistic companies capable of immediately passing cost increases onto consumers will survive. Energy infrastructure controlling AI power grids, and consumer staples companies whose products people must buy unless they starve, will defend their valuations alongside robust dividends even amidst macroeconomic tantrums.
└ Exit Conditions
Warning Signal 1: "CPI Breaks 4% Again and Powell Exercises Official Veto"
This is the scenario where, amidst actual CPI (not the manipulated trimmed mean) piercing 4%, Powell and the hawkish governors vote down Warsh's rate cut proposal by majority vote. This signifies the Fed losing control. You must immediately sell (Exit) all high-PER Nasdaq tech stocks and long-term Treasuries (TLT) and evacuate into ultra-short-term cash-equivalent assets (SGOV).
Warning Signal 2: "Blatant Undermining of Independence, e.g., Trump Attempts to Fire Fed Board"
When news flows break that the White House is using excessive legal authority to fire an uncooperative Powell or hawkish regional Fed presidents, or attempting blatant personnel intervention. This is the moment global trust in the U.S. dollar and Treasuries shatters. Because the VIX (fear index) will explode, extremely reduce weighting in dollar-denominated assets, and evacuate capital into assets outside the U.S. system, such as Emerging Markets (India) or Bitcoin.
Macro Scenario: Probabilistic Future Trajectories
The paradox of macro data, the clever redefinition of indicators, suffocating pressure from the White House, and the power struggle within the Fed where Jerome Powell holds his ground. In this fourfold pressure cooker, the trajectory of monetary policy that Chair Kevin Warsh can choose over the next 12 months is a strictly probabilistic game. Discard vague expectations of rate cuts; we deconstruct the bones of 3 practical macro scenarios based on data.
└ Scenario A (Base Case): Indirect Rate Cuts Spearheaded by 'Trimmed Mean' and 'AI' (35% Probability)
[Premise & Development]: Triggered under the premise that geopolitical energy shocks remain localized and international oil (WTI) stabilizes around $80. After taking office, Warsh drastically reduces the Fed's excessive communication (press conferences, etc.) to blindfold the market, and quietly shifts the internal inflation evaluation benchmark to the aforementioned 'Trimmed Mean PCE (currently 2.3%)'.
[Monetary Policy & Asset Impact]: Sometime in the second half of 2026, Warsh executes a 0.25%p Preemptive Cut under the flashy pretext that "current real rates are overly restrictive, and AI productivity gains have created room to cut." However, to appease Powell and hawkish members, he employs the trick of 'asymmetric easing,' maintaining or even accelerating QT. This is an exquisite political compromise saving both the White House's demands and the Fed's face, charting a trajectory where bond yields fall in the short term, and the rally of suppressed risk assets (stocks) resumes.
└ Scenario B (Worst Case): 'Hawkish Reversal' Caught in the Double Inflation Trap (45% Probability)
[Premise & Development]: Escalation of the Iran conflict damages the crude oil supply chain, synergizing with the Trump administration's deportation of immigrants (paralyzing agriculture/construction) and tariff bombs to materialize an uncontrollable 'supply-driven stagflation.' No matter how much the trimmed mean model slices off extremes, widespread price hikes impossible to hide sweep in, sending all indicators soaring above 3.5%.
[Monetary Policy & Asset Impact]: Warsh's own past remarks fiercely criticizing Powell's miscalculations return as a boomerang to choke him. Ultimately, like J.P. Morgan's baseline forecast, he gives up on rate cuts and holds them until late 2026, or in the worst case, decides on a hawkish reversal with a 0.25%p Rate Hike at the September FOMC. Warsh collides head-on with the White House, market participants' rate cut expectations are miserably shattered, and the hell of a 'Taper Tantrum' opens where both stock and bond markets plummet together.
└ Scenario C (Tail Risk): Head-on Collision with Powell, 'Institutional Gridlock' (20% Probability)
[Premise & Development]: A scenario where Chair Warsh overplays his hand. Even though the data hasn't bent, he blatantly yields to external White House pressure and forces a vote on premature rate cuts using contrived logic.
[Monetary Policy & Asset Impact]: Hawkish regional Fed presidents like Kashkari, Logan, and Hammack, rallied around 'Shadow Chairman' Powell, exercise an official Veto against Warsh's proposal utilizing their majority vote. An unprecedented event in U.S. history occurs where the Fed Chair loses a vote on a policy he proposed—an 'Institutional Gridlock' detonates. In this moment, the Fed's monetary policy leadership completely collapses, and the forward guidance fed to the market becomes scrap paper. Wall Street, losing its direction, is engulfed in extreme fear, and a spasmodic seesaw market disconnected from fundamentals becomes the norm as the VIX (volatility index) skyrockets.
Conclusion: The Shell of 'Political Independence' and the Economics of Compromise
The era of Kevin Warsh, officially inaugurated on Friday, faces a complex crisis entirely different from the demand collapse of the Global Financial Crisis or the pandemic shutdowns.
The current U.S. economy is in a state of a Compound Fracture, pierced simultaneously by 'employment indicators' breaking all-time highs and a 'severance of real physical labor' caused by immigrant deportations. It is a head-on collision between the 'romantic future productivity' promised by AI and the 'real-world energy spike' induced by infrastructure investment. On this bleeding ring, compounded by the White House's pressure to cut rates and the checks from his predecessor Powell, monetary policy has tumbled out of the realm of macroeconomics and into the bloodless, tearless mud of political engineering.
Warsh will repeatedly declare the Fed's 'independence' during hearings, but behind that flashy rhetoric hide exquisite political compromises: the 'Trimmed Mean PCE' to conceal brutal price indicators, and 'AI Hyper-productivity.' However, slicing numbers with statistical magic does not erase the screams of a broken physical supply chain. The void left by manual laborers who hid in slums terrified of ICE deportation operations can never be filled by a mathematical formula like the trimmed mean or ChatGPT's flashy coding skills.
If Warsh leans on manipulated narratives and incomplete theories to hastily pull the trigger on rate cuts, the very arrows of criticism he fired at Powell calling it an "all-time policy error" will return squarely at his own neck as a massive inflationary headwind in the second half of 2026. Investors, do not dance to headline news. It is time to center the gravity of your money on the 'pressure of real yields' and the 'trajectory of supply chain destruction' moving quietly behind the Fed's Rhetorical Shift, and build a bunker to survive the impending macroeconomic tantrum.
※ Disclaimer
This report is not investment advice soliciting the purchase or sale of specific assets; it is a macroeconomic analysis framework of the System View based on public economic data and academic papers. Depending on the Fed's policy decisions, external political pressure, and sudden geopolitical variables, global financial markets can experience extreme volatility. Please keep in mind that the final judgment and responsibility for all investments lie solely with the investor.
Source List
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