The minutes of the last Federal Reserve meeting are due, and should be fascinating. This meeting cut interest rates by 50bps, and had the first Fed governor dissenting in over two decades. Dissents may possibly be managed as part of the theater of the Fed—a single high profile dissent may mask wider disquiet at the scale of the rate cut. Certainly Fed Chair Powell’s dependence on dodgy data is looking a questionable strategy in the wake of recent (inevitable) data revisions.
