Justin Lahart

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1,185 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2017 last heard Dec 2024

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Borrowers Will Benefit From the Fed’s Interest-Rate Cut · 19 Sep 2024 podcast

So small business loans are sort of more affected by Fed rates.

Small businesses also, a lot of them use credit cards to finance a lot of their activity.

So this slight drop that we'll see in those credit card rates, it's going to help.

They'll also be maybe better able to finance a purchase.

They want to get new cash registers in or, you know, buy a new grill, something like that.

In some respect, we're still living with those rate increases.

It takes a long time for rates to move through the economy.

It takes longer to sort of affect things like business spending and so forth.

So it'll take time.

The Fed has signaled that it is going to keep on cutting rates.

So they expect to cut rates faster.

through the end of this year into next year.

What's the timetable for the Fed through the rest of the year?

The Fed will meet again in early November.

They've signaled that they're going to cut rates by a quarter point then with a last meeting in December.

And that is also expected to show a quarter point cut.

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Worker Pay Is Rising, But Their Piece of the Pie Is Shrinking · 8 Feb 2023 podcast

So this idea that wage growth in excess of productivity is going to lead to higher inflation is kind of predicated on the idea that labor's share of income is unchanging.

And that just hasn't been true.

Yeah, he and the Fed are worried that if wages go up too fast, then they're essentially going to be just passed on to consumers.

So as employers' wage costs go up, they'll pass that along in the form of higher prices, and that will make inflation go up.

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