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In this article we look at how a business can thrive and expand in the current high interest rate environment. Interest rates in the major Western economies are at levels not seen in the last decade putting a hefty financial burden on many businesses. Manufacturing and technology are key affected sectors. Achieving cost and efficiency savings is therefore today more vital than ever. It is

J.D. Vance has endorsed former President Donald Trump's call for the White House to have “a say” over the Federal Reserve's interest rate policies — a view that runs counter to decades of economicresearch suggesting that politically independent central banks are essential to controlling inflation and maintaining confidence in the global financial system. “President Trump is saying, I think,

Austan Goolsbee, the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said lowering interest rates in the fall is not a “certainty.” “I don’t think it’s a certainty, and I don’t like, as you know, tying our hands ahead of time when we got a lot of data to come in and everyone on the committee is going to get to speak their piece, and it’s a committee decision,” Goolsbee said on CBS’s

Wall Street and Main Street are ready to usher in the fall season with the first interest rate cut since March of 2020, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with this comes the hope of lower borrowing costs. While it may lower rates for mortgages, auto and personal loans, those carrying credit card debt are likely to be out of luck. "That's where the real advice is. Don't expect the Fed to