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By: Paul Dickson, Director of Research and Giri Krishnan, Senior Portfolio Manager Is the check engine light flickering? Economic data has become more mixed with signs of both growth and fragility. If the Fed wants to engineer a “soft-landing,” or perhaps even the elusive “no-landing” scenario we discussed last quarter, it will have to start cutting interest rates sooner rather than later. We look to the September Fed Meeting as the start of a series of rate cuts. The classic description of the Federal Reserve’s job (the Fed) is to know when to remove the punchbowl from the party. The...