238: FED Rate Hikes Slow the Economy
Be Wealthy & Smart
Linda P. Jones
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🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn what's happening in the economy with jobs and interest rates.
Looks like the jobs number came in strong enough for the FED to justify a .25% rate hike next week. Interestingly, GDP growth is down from 1.9% in Q4 to an estimated 1.2% rate this quarter. That is not a good sign. You don't want to be raising rates when GDP is slowing dramatically because higher rates slow down the economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Be Wealthy and Smart, episode number 238. |
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| 0:38.2 | Welcome to Be Wealthy and Smart. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Linda P. Jones, America's Wealth Mentor. |
| 0:42.1 | Empowering women and Men Worldwide to Financial Freedom. |
| 0:46.2 | On today's show, we're going to talk about the Fed Rate Hikes and what it means to the economy |
| 0:52.4 | and to your investments. |
| 0:55.0 | This is something that we don't hear a lot of the description behind the scenes, |
| 1:00.1 | we hear a lot of news about the rate hikes and a lot of noise about it, |
| 1:04.8 | but I'm going to share with you an article and then my impression on why this is so |
| 1:09.2 | important right now and what you need to know about it. |
| 1:13.0 | Because the jobs number just came in really strong |
| 1:17.0 | and that is another justification for the Fed |
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