Federal Reserve
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Fed delivers large interest rate cut
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and, in an unusual pre-election move, decided to lower their target interest rate by 0.5 percentage...
Fed foresees only one rate cut in 2024
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep interest rates unchanged. The Fed forecast that interest rates will end 2024 higher...
The Fed looks at how we are doing
The Federal Reserve Board (Fed) recently released the results of its 2023 survey of the financial well-being of U.S. households. The report contains insights...
Fed raises rate forecast for 2025
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep the Fed Funds rate unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for...
Negative leverage: The Fed’s gift to apartment investors
The Federal Reserve’s inflation of the money supply and interest rate manipulation distort capital markets through, among other things, the creation of asset bubbles....
Fed backs off higher for longer
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep the Fed Funds rate unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for...
RealPage reports rent-to-income ratio flip
RealPage reported this month that wages are outpacing rents by a widening margin. Moody's Analytics tells a much different tale. After reporting...
Fed projects interest rates will stay high longer
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep interest rates unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for key economic...
Rising rates drive Fannie and Fed forecasts
The latest forecasts from Fannie Mae and from the Federal Reserve relate the impact that the rapid rise in interest rates is expected to...