The Federal Reserve Board (the "Fed") seldom does anything newsworthy, but recently it did just that. It lowered its "target range" for something known as "the federal funds rate" by one half of one ...

In 2022, the Fed hiked rates at the fastest pace in history. Warren Buffett says that macro factors aren't knowable or important. Because changes in rates are unpredictable, investors should always ...

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It is the quantity of money that creates inflation, not the rate you can borrow or lend it at. There is a disconnect in modern base line economic thinking, which is that it is interest rates that ...

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