To explain what happened today with the FOMC meeting, we need a short step back.
The latest US CPI release materially surprised on the downside: both headline and core inflation rose way below the expectations of 65 out of the 67 (!) economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Powell recently divided inflationary pressures in 3 main categories
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