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Scientists who observed how the octopus hunts found that the creature almost always use its second arm from the center to make a grab for prey, and when it needs backup, it’s the arms closest to that second appendage that they bring into play.

"We think we can avoid the kind of very high social costs that Paul Volcker and the Fed had to bring into play" in the 1980s, Powell said.

“We think we can avoid the very high social costs that Paul Volcker and the Fed had to bring into play to get inflation back down,” Powell said in an interview at the Cato Institute, referring to the Fed chair in the early 1980s who sent short-term borrowing rates to roughly 19% to throttle punishingly high inflation.

"We think we can avoid the kind of very high social costs that Paul Volcker and the Fed had to bring into play" in the 1980s, Powell said.

“We think we can avoid the very high social costs that Paul Volcker and the Fed had to bring into play to get inflation back down,” Powell said in an interview at the Cato Institute, referring to the Fed chair in the early 1980s who sent short-term borrowing rates to roughly 19% to throttle punishingly high inflation.