Fed hears raw reality of rate hike impacts across America
Businesses detail brutal effects of inflation fight
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Businesses detail brutal effects of inflation fight
(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and fellow Fed governors on Friday heard firsthand from business and community leaders how the Fed's interest rate hikes, along with ongoing price and labor market pressures, are affecting Americans. Higher interest rates together with instability in commodity prices "has a stranglehold on the American agriculturalist right now, which leads to a stranglehold on all of rural America," said Whitney Ferris-Hansen, who owns and operates J/W Farms and Ranch in Burlington, Colorado.
OEMs will look to offset rising labor costs with cuts in other areas and tooling and die-making are inviting targets, Harbour Results' Laurie Harbour says.
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