Claire Jones
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248 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Claire Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A big aspect of those is transportation costs.
Another impact of those is fertilizer prices, which have also soared as a result of the Iran war.
So
If the war continues, in the months ahead, we'll see goods such as food impacted too.
So before the conflict began, you know, most people thought the Fed was going to cut interest rates by a quarter point twice this year.
Now that we've seen inflation surge, that's off the cards.
Now, lower interest rates mean more demand.
That means more output in the US economy.
And without that increased demand and the boost that interest rates are going to give you, economists are predicting both at the Fed and elsewhere that
something like $200 billion in lost output.
You know, I'm not a politics reporter, but it's certainly my impression that the affordability crisis was something that hit the Democrats very hard in 2024.
And in light of that, I'd be very surprised if it doesn't impact Republicans again at the polls for the midterms in November.
Thanks, Mark.
Hi, Sonia.
So the Department of Justice said it needed to investigate Fed Chair Jay Powell's handling of
of a 2.5 billion renovation of the Fed's headquarters.
They said they were looking into whether or not he'd misled Congress over the project, which has cost overruns of around $700 million.
However, Powell denied the allegations and went as far as to say what the probe was actually about was pressure from the Trump administration for Fed officials such as himself to cut US borrowing costs.
There was this dramatic reversal, of course, that we saw on Friday.
And what that really spoke to was just an appreciation from the White House that the
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