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On Wall Street, investors are now expecting that the new Fed chair will be forceful in bringing rates down.

We’ve allowed some conservatives to make alliances with loathsome figures and permitted destructive currents of thought to flourish without appropriately forceful criticism or reproach.

Typical features include frequent deep sighs, rapid breathing, forceful exhalation from the abdomen, or chest breathing without proper diaphragm use, which prevents the lungs from fully expanding.

What’s Next: Powell’s unusually forceful comment about December’s meeting comes amid a government shutdown that has delayed official data reports the Fed uses to make its rate decisions.

“The babies’ breathing,” he writes, “was impetuous, nervous, uneven, but the mothers’ slow worldly sighs, forceful and vaguely wise, got to me, straight to the heart.”