Has the Federal Reserve Pulled Off a Soft Landing? NYT | Top Stories By: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni 19 September 2024 at 23:10 Investors have sent stocks and bonds higher on expectations of a soft landing. But some Republicans think the central bank overstepped its bounds. © Richard Drew/Associated PressThe markets are rebounding after the Fed’s outsize interest-rate cut on Wednesday.