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Finance
What Higher Interest Rates Could Mean for Jobs
The past year has been a busy one for nearly every industry, as a reopening economy has ignited a war…
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Opinion
The Courage Required to Confront Inflation
Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, has often expressed admiration for the resolve exhibited by one of his…
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Finance
Newly public data show few Black economists at the Fed.
Black researchers made up about 1.5 percent of the Federal Reserve system's 945-person staff of doctorate-level economists at the end…
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Finance
Inflation Hits Fastest Pace Since 1981, at 8.5% Through March
Inflation hit 8.5 percent in the United States last month, the fastest 12-month pace since 1981, as a surge in…
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Finance
How to Fight Inflation in Wartime
Many Americans have never experienced rapid inflation, and they are looking for lessons from history about how to tame it.…
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Finance
Why the Fed Is Poised to Raise Interest Rates
Prices for groceries, couches and rent are all climbing rapidly, and Federal Reserve officials have been warily eyeing that trend.…
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Opinion
Wonking Out: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Inflation
Good news on inflation has been hard to come by lately. But this week we got two encouraging reports from…
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Finance
Fed officials firm up plans for a swift pullback of economic help.
Federal Reserve officials are coalescing around a plan to raise interest rates steadily starting in March and then move swiftly…
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Finance
Fed nominees commit to not taking part in finance’s revolving door.
Three of President Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve committed to lawmakers that, if confirmed to their posts, they would…
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Opinion
How the Fed Is and Isn’t ‘the Supreme Court of Finance’
The Federal Reserve is sometimes called “the Supreme Court of finance.” That’s a stretch, of course, but the analogy does…
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