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Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism.

Today we cut our key interest rates by 0.25 percentage points. We are doing this because inflation is developing broadly as we expected and is on track to settle at around our 2% target ...