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Everyone's reacting to what Warsh said. Almost nobody's asking why he had to say it this bluntly.

You don't reassert "2% is non-negotiable" unless the market had already started pricing in the opposite. Rate-cut bets got ahead of the data — not the other way around. Warsh didn't create hawkish policy today. He corrected a mispricing that was already there.

That's a different trade than "Fed turned hawkish, sell risk."

The real tell is what happens next: if this was genuinely new hawkish info, the reaction should build over days as more data confirms it. If it was just a repricing shock, price stabilizes fast once positioning resets — probably within a session or two.

I'd rather watch how quickly the move absorbs than react to the drop itself. A slow bleed says the market believes him. A sharp snapback says it was just leverage getting flushed.

Either way, this tells you more about how overcrowded the "cuts are coming" trade had gotten than it does about the Fed's actual stance.

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