Amene: It's a choppy situation for central banks around the world. Other banks and big western economies are also raising interest rates. Amene: The longer it takes to get inflation under control, the more pain that will be for American economy as a whole.
America’s Federal Reserve made its third straight 0.75%
interest-rate hike, with Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair, warning that more hikes would follow. But with inflation still high, and labour markets still tight, is the Fed doing all it can? A new report suggests that
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