"... This will be a different kind of recession -- a recession with an overlay of inflation. That combo puts the Federal Reserve in a Catch-22 -- whatever it does to solve one problem only makes the other worse."

– Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, "This Recession, It's Just Beginning"

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