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    On Monday, in a speech at the New York Association for Business Economics, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller discussed the U.S. economic outlook and the implications for “monetary policy at a crossroads.” His remarks were more hawkish than many observers expected. Indeed, he’s the first voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to publicly articulate a conditional path toward rate hikes this year – if we see another “hot” inflation reading. And on Tuesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the June Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data. The headline figure ... (full story)

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