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High Time Preference Is the Cause of Increases in Long-Term Interest Rates
Long-term interest rates are on the rise and there is no shortage of explanations from the usual suspects. One thing the ...
How Do Global Interest Rates Affect Your Business?
Interest rate cuts are always good for most businesses, but we may not be getting the dramatic cuts that we were hoping for.
New tariffs could raise home prices and sideline potential buyers
The tariffs are likely to hit smaller homebuilders with tighter margins harder, but big builders are not immune.
High Inflation Sows Debate About New Fed Playbook for Tariffs
Fresh tariffs amid high inflation are making the Fed’s job uniquely difficult and feeding uncertainty about what to expect ...
San Francisco Fed5h
Does Monetary Policy Tightening Reduce Inflation?
Recent research has identified periods when the Federal Reserve intentionally acted to slow inflation when it exceeded ...
How Negative Interest Rates Work
Negative interest rates occur when prices begin to start dropping to low levels as the value of a nation's currency increases. At these times, central banks may resort to negative interest rates. The ...
Fed pauses interest rate cuts. What happens next may depend on Trump
After three successive interest rate cuts, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday made no change in its benchmark lending rate amid ...
Fed pauses interest rate cuts as inflation, Trump's plans create uncertainty
The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged as officials grappled with uncertainty caused by inflation and ...
AOL5d
How Fed rate decisions affect your finances: 5 key impacts on your savings, loans and investments
The Federal Reserve wrapped up 2024 with three consecutive rate ... interest-bearing accounts, many other factors influence gold prices — including global events, market sentiment and supply ...