The Great Disconnect: Strong Data, Phony Panic Let’s call this circus what it is. The numbers are clear: Unemployment scraping historic lows. Inflation still miles above the Fed’s mythical 2% target. Wages rising, consumers still spending (even while their credit cards catch fire). Stocks and risk assets juiced to the moon by cheap money expectations. Yet futures markets are pricing in 150 basis points of rate cuts like we’re on the edge of a depression. Does that smell right to you? Of course it doesn’t. Because it’s not about growth or inflation anymore. It’s about survival—the Fed’s survival, and by extension, the whole rotten edifice of the Washington-Wall Street cartel. A New Master: The Debt Monster For decades, the Federal…

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