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  • A Divided Fed Faces Its Most Contentious Meeting in Years

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    The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is heading into its final meeting of 2025 amid an unusually high level of internal disagreement. Five of the twelve voting members have publicly voiced skepticism or outright opposition to further rate cuts, while three governors at the Fed’s Washington headquarters support easing. This level of division three or more dissenting views has not been recorded in a single meeting since 2019 and has occurred only nine times since 1990. This rare fragmentation underscores a deeper tension within the Fed: the struggle to balance the dual mandate of stabilizing inflation and ... (full story)

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Luxyus
Dec 8, 2025 4:50am
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hold with no regret and wait and see
Trader#1B8E
Dec 8, 2025 7:45am
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They have no choice but to cut, they intentionally intervened in the markets to push stocks and crypto higher by saying they would lower rates. It would be impossible to go back on that now. The only question is what they say about additional cuts. If anyone thinks they aren’t going to cut this week I’d suggest quitting the trading industry.
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Trader#4B38
Dec 9, 2025 10:08pm
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Quoting Trader#1B8E
They have no choice but to cut, they intentionally intervened in the markets to push stocks and crypto higher by saying they would lower rates. It would be impossible to go back on that now. The only question is what they say about additional cuts. If anyone thinks they aren’t going to cut this week I’d suggest quitting the trading industry.
Youre dumb the fed is split and the government shutdown delayed inflation data, powell and vice chair could very much say no to a rate cut.
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