Getting more interesting: the Fed raises rates

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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America’s central bank has raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point—its fourth rise this year. It is walking a fine line between cooling the economy and tipping the country into recession. Scientific results fundamental to more than a decade’s-worth of Alzheimer’s research may have been fabricated. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:13.2	16 years ago, a scientific journal published a landmark paper on the causes of Alzheimer's disease.
1:19.9	Recently, however, a neurologist analyzed images from that paper and found signs suggesting its results may have been fabricated.
1:29.4	And it's just a quirk of biology that women have a higher tendency toward obesity than men do,
1:35.7	and global numbers show it.
1:37.5	But in one region, the difference between the two is noticeably larger.
1:52.0	No. is noticeably larger. First up, though.
2:00.0	After having been accused for months of failing to counter inflation. America's Federal Reserve has been aggressively
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