Will the Fed Continue Cutting Interest Rates?
With the recent unease in financial markets, one question that has been on many people’s minds is: what will the Federal Reserve do with interest rates The Fed has paused its interest rate cuts...
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With the recent unease in financial markets, one question that has been on many people’s minds is: what will the Federal Reserve do with interest rates The Fed has paused its interest rate cuts...
For many people, the mention of interest rates probably causes their eyes to glaze over Certainly there are some interest rates that most people pay attention to Mortgage rates, for instance, are...
The history of money is the history of failed currencies From the Roman denarius to the German Goldmark to the Zimbabwean dollar, currencies across the world have collapsed and failed Just because...
In a move that was widely expected, the Federal Open Market Committee this week decided to lower the target federal funds rate The move had been more or less forecast for weeks in advance, and recent...
The law of supply and demand is one of the bedrocks of economics And for most goods the higher the price of the good, the less quantity of that good is demanded We’re seeing that through much of...
While markets largely expected a first Federal Reserve rate cut at the September Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell made it all but explicit last week that the...
Over the past few years, there has probably been no financial topic more widely discussed than inflation It’s a problem that has impacted every American household, and has impacted the standard of...
For those hoping for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, those cuts don’t seem to be coming any closer Inflation has dropped ever so slightly, to 34% year on year, and the unemployment rate...
Last week’s Federal Open Market Committee didn’t ruffle too many feathers, as the Federal Reserve decided for the sixth straight meeting to hold interest rates steady But while markets and...
Only about four or five months ago everyone expected that this week would be the week that the Federal Reserve would finally cut interest rates Rates would fall, stock markets would shoot to the sky,...
While most of the country is focused on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy as it pertains to interest rates, fewer people are focused on other aspects of the Fed’s monetary policy Among the...
As the Federal Open Market Committee meets again this week for its decision on interest rates, its decision is basically a foregone conclusion No one expects the FOMC to cut rates this week, as Wall...
Wall Street has been hoping for months for the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates It wants a return to what it sees as the glory days, when zero interest rates meant trillions of dollars...
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will meet this week for its first monetary policy meeting of the year While no one expects the Fed to cut rates at this meeting, they’re at least expecting...
As 2024 starts, there’s one thing on many Americans’ minds: will the US economy fall into recession or not Especially after bank failures early in 2023, everyone waited with bated breath last...
As the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets this week, Wall Street’s hopes for a rate cut seem to be fading Between last week’s jobs numbers and this week’s CPI figures, the case for...
The latest inflation report seems to underscore one of the problems with official inflation figures While the 32% headline inflation figure remains above the Fed’s 2% target rate, it doesn’t seem...