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Putting real yield shifts into context when considering the dollar

Last week’s change in the Fed’s inflation-targeting regime has pushed the dollar down to its lowest level in more than two years. Nonetheless, we do not expect the greenback to fall by as much as it rose forty years ago, when the Fed successfully drove inflation down by changing its approach.

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