WASHINGTON — There’s little dispute that the Federal Reserve this week will do something it hasn’t done since 2008, when the U.S. economy was gripped by the Great Recession: Cut its benchmark interest rate.
This time, by contrast, the economy is solid by most measures. Consumers are spending. Unemployment is close to a half-century low.
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