The Fed held rates exactly as expected and the market sold off anyway, because the real move was not the decision but the information architecture around it. The dot plot tilted sharply hawkish, Iran signed its nuclear MOU but Trump revealed a ballistic missile concession at the G7, and the largest payments M&A deal of the year landed in a single afternoon. The through-line is signal detachment: markets must now price without the Fed's map, and gold keeps climbing while ignoring the real-rate signal that used to govern it. When the reference you have trusted comes loose from the thing it measures, price discovery gets harder everywhere.
“Most of what you call planning is just comfort dressed up as strategy. The capacity to act clearly without a plan is the thing worth building.”
“The morning of a decision you cannot influence is a free morning. Use it that way.”
“The clearest thinking happens in the gaps you didn't schedule.”
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— Musonius Rufus
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