Why the Fed Kept Interest Rates Unchanged
Be Wealthy & Smart
Linda P. Jones
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Discover why the Fed kept interest rates unchanged. The Federal Reserve met today and did not lower interest rates. What was behind their decision and how does it impact consumers?
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| 0:00.0 | Be Wealthy and Smart, episode 1638. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm going to live the rich life, |
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| 0:18.0 | I'm going to live a good life. |
| 0:21.9 | A beautiful and glorious life. |
| 0:25.3 | Step into a world of wealth and financial freedom without budgets, boredom, or bosses on Be Wealthy and Smart. |
| 0:34.2 | And now, here's your host, Linda P. Jones. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome to Be Wealthy and Smart. I'm Linda P. Jones, |
| 0:45.3 | America's wealth mentor, empowering women and men worldwide to financial freedom. On today's show, |
| 0:50.2 | we're going to talk about why the Fed kept interest rates unchanged and what that means for consumers. So today was the Fed meeting and the Federal Reserve did not lower interest rates, |
| 0:55.0 | which was the anticipated response. But there was a lot of new economic data that came in that |
| 1:00.6 | is behind that decision. Earlier today, the producer price index, which tracks the change in |
| 1:05.8 | wholesale prices, rose 0.7% in February, which was well above the 0.3% that economists polled by Dow Jones had estimated. |
| 1:14.5 | The report shows that inflation was already in a precarious spot prior to the Iran war breaking out, |
| 1:20.4 | an event that has heightened stagflation fears amid rising oil prices. |
| 1:25.0 | Todd Schoenberger, CIO at Crosscheck Management, said the hotter than expected |
| 1:30.0 | number is specific to tariffs. This is structural inflation, not temporary, and is likely going to |
| 1:35.4 | impact monetary policy deep into the third quarter. He said add in the hotter energy prices |
| 1:41.0 | we've been seeing since the Iran war began, which have yet to show up in |
| 1:44.7 | these reports, and Wall Street is bracing for rapidly rising prices that will clearly flow down |
| 1:50.3 | to the consumer level. Oil futures today have been hovering around $96 a barrel. So after that news |
| 1:57.0 | of the producer price index came out, the Federal Reserve voted to hold its key interest |
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