If the Fed Raises Rates, What’s the Price? | Eric Swanson

Podcast: Market Insider · The Epoch Times

Opublikowano: 2026-07-28

Inflation has come off its peak, but the path back to the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target remains unsettled. Longer-term rates are climbing, and markets are moving away from the rate cuts many homebuyers and businesses had anticipated. That leaves a harder question: Could the Fed raise rates before inflation is fully under control? For borrowers, higher financing costs can arrive before the Fed makes a formal decision. Those costs affect spending and hiring before officials decide what comes next. Eric Swanson, professor of economics at University of California–Irvine, has spent years studying monetary poli...