Investors are warming to the fact the Federal Reserve is about to throw ice cold water on the hot U.S. economy where inflation is surging to four-decade highs. But whether the Fed hikes 50 basis points next week — or even a previously-unfathomable 75 points — Jerome Powell and company are unlikely to achieve the proverbial (and rare) soft landing, according to one veteran trader.
Bill Smead, chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management, compared the present bout of persistently…
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