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But the increase would certainly have slammed the brakes on an economy that's still running very hot.
Most of the old names for vehicles' constituent parts persist in our newer machines too: wheels and tires and axles and brakes and springs , of course; but also the collective name for all this stuff, the under-carriage now applied to cars and trains and even airplanes!
The modern automobile is laden with microchips, which control fuel intake, cruise control, anti-lock brakes, and more.
Whenever wages start to go up a bit--God forbid, workers should see their salaries jump--Wall Street gets jittery about inflation and the Fed pumps the brakes.
Similarly, no one really believes that raising the Fed funds rate from 5.25 percent to 5.50 percent is going to put the brakes on economic growth (although the gradual rise from 4.75 percent to 5.50 percent has to have had some effect).