Behind the Interest Rate Increases

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Behind the Interest Rate Increases

CQ Budget Podcast, Episode 82

FED Chairman Jerome Powell. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn

Posted October 15, 2018 at 9:49am

Stock market losses and interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve may be making some people jittery especially President Donald Trump. But none of it is abnormal, explains CQ’s numbers guru, budget and appropriations editor Peter Cohn.

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