Messaging matters
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
There have been mixed messages on interest rate cuts, and that uncertainty is weighing on consumers. As the Federal Reserve continues its effort to bring inflation down to 2%, economists watch how consumers interpret that kind of messaging and what their expectations are. Also in this episode: Black unemployment spikes, the impact of cyberattacks on small businesses and the growing use of psychometric assessments for job seekers.
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| 1:14.0 | Will they or won't they? |
| 1:18.0 | Should they or shouldn't they? |
| 1:20.0 | How, oh how, is a consumer to know what's going on? |
| 1:25.0 | From American public media, it is Monday. Today, this one is the 8th of April. |
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| 1:44.9 | Will they, or won't they? |
| 1:47.2 | That is the question. |
| 1:50.0 | We talk here, of course, of interest rate cuts and the Federal Reserve and the data on which |
| 1:55.3 | the central bank relies, which honestly is adding to the general consternation. |
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