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Fed Raises Rates Another 75 Basis Points—Pushing Borrowing Costs To Highest Level Since Great Recession

Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/22/2022 - 03:07

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday doubled down on its most aggressive economic tightening campaign in three decades, raising interest rates by another three-fourths of a percentage point and pushing borrowing costs to the highest level since the Great Recession in order to help temper the nation's stubbornly high inflation—even as experts worry the hawkish tightening could drive the economy into a recession.   Taken From -