Christopher Rugaber

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Jerome Powell

Jerome Powell is gathering the Fed this week with the elusive ‘soft landing’ in sight—here’s how close the economy is to dodging recession

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

Harvard

Harvard, Stanford, other elite schools linked to racist, sexist messages posted for years on Economics Job Market Rumors website

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American shopper

Inflation hits 3% in June, lowest level in over 2 years

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Jerome Powell

Economists say the soft landing is real after ‘kind of a Goldilocks report’ on jobs and hiring

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

Businessman analysing forex trading graph financial data

U.S. hiring slowed more than expected but employers still added 209,000 jobs in June

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Jerome Powell

Powell says the Fed missed the SVB crisis because of ‘the natural human tendency to fight the last war’

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

Customers shop at a retail store in Vernon Hills, Ill., Monday, June 12, 2023. The most-anticipated recession probably in modern U.S. history still hasn’t arrived. Despite higher borrowing costs, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s aggressive streak of interest rate hikes, consumers keep spending, and employers keep hiring. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Economists scrambling to justify their recession predictions floated ‘rolling’ or ‘richcession’ theories, but maybe they were just wrong

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Jerome Powell

Jerome Powell tells Congress we have a ‘long way to go’ on inflation and the Fed will decide on interest rates ‘meeting by meeting’

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

Jerome Powell

Jerome Powell sounds ultra-cautious as he takes his foot off the hike machine: ‘We want to get inflation down to 2%, and we just don’t see that yet’

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

Jerome Powell

Fed keeps key interest rate unchanged after 10 straight hikes—but it might raise it 2 more times later this year

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Jerome Powell

The Fed is likely to ‘skip’ and not ‘pause’ a rate hike because Jerome Powell can’t get his 18-member committee to agree

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

CPI

Inflation cools in May to slowest pace in over 2 years

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Student William Onderdork studies an engine on a Cessna 310 aircraft at Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics in West Mifflin, Pa., Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Students graduating from PIA have been awed by how much they’re in demand. Recruiters are desperately seeking more aircraft mechanics for the airlines, airplane manufacturers, and repair shops that need them. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

A surge of retirements means companies are desperate for niche workers like airline mechanics and nurses

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

FILE – Philip Jefferson, then-nominee to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, listens during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington.“Skipping a rate hike at a coming meeting would allow (Fed policymakers) to see more data before making decisions” about whether to further increase rates, said Fed Governor Jefferson in a speech Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker made similar comments Wednesday. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via AP, File)

Fed officials are signaling that the central bank probably won’t hike interest rates in June

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Janet Yellen

One of the big 3 credit rating agencies just warned America that its constant threats not to pay its bills could spark a downgrade

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