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Fortune
Tristan Bove

Elon Musk just accused the Fed of ‘massively amplifying’ the risk of a severe recession

Elon Musk sitting on stage during a 2014 conference in Beijing (Credit: Visual China Group/Getty Images)

The world’s wealthiest man has weighed in on the Federal Reserve’s all-or-nothing fight to tame inflation.

To bring down soaring inflation in the U.S., the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates six times so far this year in an effort to slow down the economy and bring prices back down. The speed and size of the rate hikes have left investors on edge, with many worried the Fed will overcorrect, if it hasn’t already, and steer the economy into a recession.

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