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'Soft landing' has become the latest buzzword on the US economy. It relates to whether the American Federal Reserve has managed the tightrope act of hiking interest rates sufficiently to pull inflation within its target range without tipping the economy into a severe downturn. But a looming debt refinancing risk could burst any hopes of this happening. ETM's Ilze-Marie Le Roux and Director George Glynos takes a look.