Tag: Interest Rates
Powell Says Fed Could Raise Rates More Quickly to Tame Inflation
The oil and gas price spike and other commodity disruptions tied to the war in Ukraine could push…
Stocks notch their best week since November 2020.
Oil prices slid and the Federal Reserve offered investors clarity on its plan to tame inflation, triggering a…
Federal Reserve Walks a Tightrope Between Inflation and Recession
In an interview, James D. Hamilton, professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, and a…
Why the Fed Raised Interest Rates
Shoppers at a mall in Miami Beach, Fla., earlier this month. A surge in consumer spending has helped…
What a Federal Reserve Rate Increase Means for You
Though the typical car payment has reached its highest levels since 2012, any Fed increase isn’t expected to…
As Fed Prepares to Raise Rates, Global Economy Sinks Deeper Into Turmoil
Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University, said many forecasters had been doing what investors sometimes refer to…
Global Economy Sinks Deeper into Turmoil as Fed Prepares to Raise Rates
Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University, said many forecasters had been doing what investors sometimes refer to…
Could Inflation Prompt Powell to Act Like Volcker?
The war in Ukraine threatens to keep costs elevated for longer. Gas prices have already surged, lifting headline…
How Sanctions on Russia Are Affecting the Global Economy
In the span of just a few days, the global economic outlook has darkened while troops battled in…
Rising Mortgage Rates Add to the Challenge of Buying a House
But some shoppers — particularly first-time buyers — may decide to wait until even higher rates help cool…
Inflation May Have Peaked. The Fed Needs to Step Gingerly.
In short, it might be helpful to reframe the C.P.I. news.Newspapers could quite accurately have run this much…
Modern Monetary Theory Got a Pandemic Tryout. Inflation Is Now Testing It.
The problem is that the alternative to a Fed response is, at the moment, not obvious. The Biden…