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Here is the bad news. At the post-FOMC meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointedly responded to a question with, "We are not trying to induce a recession". Despite the "softish landing" rhetoric, it is becoming clear that the Fed is trying to induce a recession.
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