Interest rates are inching up
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee raised short-term interest rates today, up a quarter of a percent from the 0.5 percent they’ve been at all year.
We were at the press conference, which you can hear a bit of in the audio player above. You might be wondering: why should I care?
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