Saturday, April 18, 2026

Tag: interest rates

Democrats urge immediate rate cuts to combat housing crisis exacerbated by...

Democrats in Congress are urging the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates immediately, warning that the central bank's restrictive monetary policy is worsening the nation's housing crisis and threatening to derail a strong streak of job growth.

Learning from mistakes: It’s time to lower interest rates

A statement of this intention by the Fed, along with a modest rate cut, would be a huge step in this direction.

Government watchdog cautions against further interest rate hikes for risk of...

Accountable.US warns further hikes "would needlessly and unnecessarily cause a recession and result in millions of Americans losing their jobs."

Ignoring warnings of mass job loss, Fed hikes rates to highest...

"The Fed should end its rate hiking campaign for good."

The Fed is about to shaft American workers—or no good reason

Fed policymakers are poised to raise interest rates at their March meeting and then continue raising them, in order to slow the economy.

The disaster of negative of interest rates

President Trump wants negative interest rates, but they would be disastrous for the U.S. economy, and his objectives can be better achieved...

Is the economy growing too fast? Interest rates and the fed

The potential gains from allowing the economy to continue to grow and for the unemployment rate to drop further are enormous.

What’s Behind the Fed’s Decision to Raise Interest Rates in a...

It's clear that the Fed feels it needs to get interest rates back up before the bottom falls out of the US economy once again.

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UN experts demand halt to arms transfers as Israel’s Lebanon strikes intensify and Senate...

Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U.S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict.

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Analysis shows fossil fuel giants capturing massive gains as oil prices surge during conflict, intensifying scrutiny over war-driven economic impacts.

The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...

How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.

The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push

Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.