Rates are expected to increase to 3.75% to 4% by the end of the year, and it's anticipated to stay high for longer.

The day after the Federal Open Market Committee's next meeting we will analyze the increase and the signals about what rate hikes may be coming.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell brushed off concerns that rapidly tightening monetary policy could disrupt the financial system. Some economists and policy experts beg to differ, raising concerns about loan defaults or even the collapse of a key institution or counterparty.

Analysts say draining reserves from the banking system will reach a practical limit in the first quarter.

Growth is already slowing after its previous increase, but with inflation persisting, it seems a recession is necessary to ease price pressure.

Largely, economists surveyed agreed with the decision by the Fed to continue to raise interest rates to slow inflation.

The Fed's tests have become a menacing countercyclical force that could further drive down liquidity in the mortgage market over the next year, the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors writes.

Following their largest drop in over a decade one week ago, averages rapidly swung upward as recession talk receded.

The figures reaffirm price pressure are rampant and widespread across the economy, and having effect on real wages.

The CRA has failed to reduce anti-Black racial discrimination in financial services, to lower poverty or to lessen environmental destruction.