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Fed needs great skill, and luck, to achieve a soft landing: Yellen
Those remarks align her with Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who said last week that he and his policy making colleagues at the central bank are "strongly committed" to taming inflation, which remains near a 40-year high. His words caused investors to increase expectations for a third straight hike of three-quarters of a percentage point at the Fed's September 20-21 policy meeting.