Month: July 2022
Federal Reserve unleashes another big rate hike in bid to curb inflation
By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a mortgage or an auto or business loan. Consumers and businesses then presumably borrow and spend less, cooling the economy and slowing inflation.
Read MoreU.S. offers Russia deal to bring jailed Americans Griner, Whelan home
The Biden administration has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American Paul Whelan.
Read MoreFed raises rates by 0.75 points for second month in a row – Financial Times
Fed raises rates by 0.75 points for second month in a row Financial Times Fed makes history with second massive rate hike in as many months CNN Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.75%, matching June’s historic move Yahoo Finance The Fed just
Read MoreDemocrats are overdue for a new generation of leaders
And in Congress it may be about to arrive
Read MoreDutch farmers dump manure, garbage on roads to protest planned emission reductions
The government says emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce, must be drastically reduced close to nature areas that are part of a network of protected habitats for endangered species stretching across the European Union.
Read MoreBrittney Griner testifies she signed documents without understanding what they said after being stopped at Moscow airport – CNN
Brittney Griner testifies she signed documents without understanding what they said after being stopped at Moscow airport CNN Brittney Griner testifies during Russia trial WFAA Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates The New York Times I Might Have Been in Brittney Griner’s Shoes The
Read MoreJames Lovelock, Scientific Mind Behind the Gaia Living Earth Theory, Has Died at 103
(LONDON, England) — James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday. Lovelock’s family said Wednesday that he died the previous
Read MoreFed Raises Interest Rates for Second Straight Month to Clamp Down on Inflation
Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates by 75 basis points for the second straight month, delivering the most aggressive tightening in more than a generation to curb surging inflation—but risking a sharp blow to the economy. Policy makers, facing the
Read More‘We Will Do What is Necessary’: Pentagon Preparing in Case Pelosi Travels to Taiwan
SYDNEY—Nancy Pelosi hasn’t said if she’s going to Taiwan, but if she does she’d be entering one of the world’s hottest and most contentious spots. While U.S. officials say they have little fear that Beijing would attack the U.S. House
Read MoreFeeling Off? It Could Be ‘Ambient’ Stress
Americans’ mental health tanked during the first year of the pandemic. More than 36% of U.S. adults experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression in August 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By January 2021, the
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