The U.S. Federal Reserve is treading carefully with raising rates amid the widespread economic, macro and geopolitical uncertainties sweeping around the world. The Fed raised its target level as high as 20% in the early 1980s to deal with runaway inflation, but we’re a far cry from that today — a time when inflation threatens to skyrocket in a similar manner. A History Of The Last Four Fed Rate Hiking Cycles In nine of the last 14 years, including from March 2020 to March 2022, the Fed’s target rate was at zero, leaving the central bank few tools to deal…
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Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.