Economics

How Do Higher Interest Rates Impact Inflation?

Interest rates are its primary weapon in the fight against inflation. According to Yiming Ma, an assistant finance professor at Columbia University Business School, the Fed does this by determining the short-term borrowing rate for commercial banks, which subsequently pass those rates on to consumers and companies. This increased rate affects the interest you pay […]

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Has Inflation Gone Up?

In January, the consumer price index increased by 0.6 percent, bringing annual inflation to 7.5 percent. That was the greatest rise since February 1982, and it outperformed Wall Street’s forecast. When adjusted for inflation, workers’ real incomes climbed by only 0.1 percent month over month. Is inflation expected to rise in 2020? Inflation isn’t going

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