The federal reserve raised the growth rate in 2019 to 2.2%. U.S. Interest Rate Cut August 2019 The federal reserve cut on July 31,2019 the interest rate by 0.25%, the first cut since 2008.The present cut follows three years of gradual interest rate rise by the federal reserve. The U....
Brazil’s national minimum wage is adjusted every year by federal law. In 2012, minimum wage was R$ 622 ($173.57 USD) per month, which works out to R$ 20.7 ($5.78 USD) per day and R$ 2.59 ($0.72 USD) per hour. Brazil’s national minimum wage is adjusted annually by federal law. ...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says inflation is on a sustainable path to its 2% goal. The general expectation is that the US Federal Reserve will cut rates at its December 2024 meeting. Geopolitical factors, jobs data, tax measures, and President-elect Donald Trump’s policies may all im...
TheFederal Reserve Bankbuys and sells the bills and bonds to control the country'smoney supplyand manage interest rates.1415 Who Runs the Treasury Department? The Treasury Department is headed by thesecretary of the Treasurywho is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.Janet Yellen...
Political turmoil is erupting within one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. as the top attorney for the Navajo Nation announced that an investigation has cleared the Navajo president of sexual harassment allegations by the vice president ...
US NATIONAL DEBT TOPS $34T FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY The Federal Reserve raised interest rates 11 times in the span of just 16 months, lifting rates to the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis. Policymakers have since signaled that they are finished tightening policy and are planning...
The US interactive homeownership history tool United States Homeownership Rate Sources Homeownership data comes from the US Census Bureau's quarterly homeownership series, accessed from the St. Louis Federal Reserve's FRED API. Observations before 1965 I manually retrieved from (scanned) paper censuses....
Republican Candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court Suffers Legal Setbacks in Close Race The trailing Republican in a tight North Carolina Supreme Court race has suffered legal setbacks in his bid to overtake his Democratic rival Associated PressDec. 20, 2024...
This study systematically assessed the spillover effects of US industrial subsidy policies on China’s export by matching all related bills issued by the US federal and state governments since 2009 with the affected products exported from China. In general, the US subsidy policies created a signific...
(such as total employment) where needed, incorporating additional data from Moody’s Investors Service, the US Census Bureau, the World Bank, the Conference Board, and the Federal Reserve Board. The period we studied in most cases stops in 2019 or earlier, to stay focused on long-term ...