CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell July 7, 2024
disastrous showing the biggest spike in consumer prices in over 40 years that the fed felt the need to move fast here to take a page out of the playbook of alan greenspan and paul volker with a very big interest rate increase, and they signaled that more aggressive steps are to come because that official said they are, quote, strongly committed to getting inflation back down to 2%. and given that it's nowhere near 2% right now, that does imply more big rate increases to come. as far as why this is happening, i think it's important to think about the economy as almost like a car on a ...