Ben Casselman
speaker
8 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 5d ago
Ben Casselman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Fed has been trying for years to get inflation under control.
It kind of thought that it was really making progress on that and and began to cut interest rates.
And so the decision on Wednesday to increase interest rates was an effort to bring inflation down and and to signal to Americans broadly.
That the Fed is on the case trying to get inflation under control.
Most of the time, the urge is gone the next day.
The economy is in this really sort of strange, uncertain moment.
We had hiring going up, incomes going up, profits going up, unemployment low. But now, all of a sudden, there's a lot of sort of storm clouds on the horizon right Consumer confidence has really taken a hit, business confidence too. And really, practically all of this is tied to the new administration.
You know, right now it's very hard for a business to decide whether to invest or to hire if they don't know what the tariff situation is going to be, what the tax situation is going to be, what the labor situation is going to be. And that kind of ripples through the economy.
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