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Why Higher Fed Rates Are Not Totally Off the Table

Fed officials still think their next move will be to cut rates, but they are not entirely ruling out the possibility that they might have to raise them.

By Jeanna Smialek

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Powell Suggests Interest Rates Could Stay High for a Longer Period

The Fed chair, along with the central bank’s No. 2 policymaker, stressed uncertainties over job growth and the persistence of elevated inflation.

By Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley

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3 Facts That Help Explain a Confusing Economic Moment

The path to a “soft landing” doesn’t seem as smooth as it did four months ago. But the expectations of a year ago have been surpassed.

By Ben Casselman

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Biden’s Plan B on Inflation: Turn It Against Trump

Price pressures aren’t easing fast enough to guarantee the interest-rate cuts the president hoped to see by November, so his message is evolving.

By Jim Tankersley

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