Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve started a rate-cutting cycle on Sept. 18, 2025, lowering its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points (bps) to a range of 4.75% to 5%. The cut was the first since March 2020 after the Fed raised interest rates to a 23-year high point to cool the economy and quell inflation. The Fed cut rates two more times in 2024, each by 25 basis points. It has not cut interest rates so far in 2025.
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Printing More Money as a Capital Illusion
Jan 20, 2010“And I promise to every Floridian that you will all be RICH!! Because we’re gonna print some more money! Why didn’t anybody ever think of this before??!!” — Nathan Explosion, Metalocalypse In this episode for the Adult Swim animated series, the front man of Dethklok — an unrealistically high-earning metal band described as the “world’s seventh largest economy” — feels as newly-elected governor of Florida that his quantitative easing approach to a slumping economy will deliver huge results.
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Money Makes Us Crazy
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In This Corner: LoanSifter President Bruce Backer
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Dude, where’s my liquidity?
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