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The Federal Reserve may have made a huge mistake

In what looks like a fit of panic, America's central bank cut interest rates yesterday. And the markets didn't like it one bit. Dominic Frisby explains why.

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by: Dominic Frisby
4 Mar 2020

Fed chair Jerome Powell: easily panicked © Getty

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