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title: Among the reasons why the Fed cut 50bps this week:
description: "1) Inflation risk is LOWER than Employment and Consumer risk\n2) The sticky component of inflation is shelter. For shelter inflation to go down we need to see more housing supply and for this we need to get lower mortgage rates = jumbo rate cut does help \n3) They MUST get front-end rates lower as this colossal wall of debt matures (source: Lawrence McDonald, Bloomberg)"
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# [Among the reasons why the Fed cut 50bps this week:](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/among-the-reasons-why-the-fed-cut-50bps-this-week)

 Written by [Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/author/charles-henry-monchau) | Sep 19, 2024, 2:44:31 PM

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