The Fed held rates too high too long, then will pivot too late. They've whiplashed the economy for years—every recent recession traces back to their timing failures.
Fed policy. Keeping rates too high for too long would choke credit, crush hiring, and turn a slowdown into a recession.
Companies binged on cheap money for stock buybacks instead of building actual reserves. Now the bill is due and they are dragging us all down with them.
Fed rate hikes strangled borrowing and killed growth dead. Their policy blunders always spark the next recession.