Opinion
Fed’s follies mean interest-rate cut won’t ease our economic woes
Because the Fed is in a lose-lose scenario whatever it does: No matter how big or small the cut, it will produce more financial pain for American families. That’s especially troubling given how much people’s budgets are already stretched amid the current cost-of-living crisis.
Fed set to cut interest rates: What it could mean for inflation, economy, jobs
The Federal Reserve will begin a rate-cutting path, as soon as Sept. 18. Inflation and the economy remain hot topics in the presidential election.
Fed's Powell says balance sheet drawdown continues amid rate cuts
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday still strong levels of liquidity in the financial system will allow the central bank to press forward with shrinking its balance sheet even as it has begun cutting rates.
The Fed's Powell is cutting interest rates. Here's how the economy will respond.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s next steps will have enormous influence over the economy that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump inherits in January.
Jerome Powell’s sunny economic outlook clashes with the Fed’s bold interest rate cut
The Fed cut interest rates by half a percentage point yesterday—the first cut in four years and double the 25 basis points that many expected from the central bank. And yet the markets dipped down, perhaps because of a perceived disconnect between Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s sunny prognosis that “the economy is in good shape” and the committee’s bold action that suggests a possible recession on the horizon.
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One argument for cutting rates by 25 basis points, or 0.25 percentage point, instead of 50 basis points goes like this: The ...