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2025-03-01 Economy

Core inflation rate drops to 7-month low of 2.6%, interest rates down 1/2 point due to cuts in gov’t spending

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Posted by Fred 2025-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Federal bonds and interest rates move in an "inverse" relationship. IF we can cut billions of "demand" for those Federal bonds, then the smaller "supply" for those bonds will raise prices. That, in turn, will drive interest rates down.

Posted by Crusader 2025-03-01 02:03|| 2025-03-01 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 At least Biden destroyed Keynesian mythology.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-01 08:41|| 2025-03-01 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3
Fixed Income, and a 2.3% COLA in this economy.
Retirees are screwed over.
Screwed over by the Democrats and what they did with their Stolen election and how they wasted $2+ Trillion overspending.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-01 10:54|| 2025-03-01 10:54|| Front Page Top

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