Too good to be bad, too risky to be good: Economy has Fed in a fix

After playing catch-up with inflation through the past year in a policy shift made urgent by relentlessly rising prices, the US Federal Reserve now faces a judgment about whether the economy is strong to motor through even higher interest rates or is on the cusp of a crack-up.
 

Financial markets and professional forecasters seem braced for the latter. US investors from crypto rebels to index fund loyalists lost in excess of $8 trillion this year as markets wilted under the fastest Fed rate hikes in 40 years; bond markets seem convinced a recession is coming; economists, in surveys by Reuters