At its July meeting, the Federal Reserve Board kept interest rates unchanged. It was not an unexpected move because, as I pointed out in a column on these pages in March 2015, the Fed probably won't do anything substantive until after the presidential election. You see, inching up interest rates just a tad increases the government's…
Previously:
• 07/04/16: The Fourth of July in oratory
• 09/14/15: How expatriates are forging an Obama legacy
• 09/07/15: Will 2016 reprise 1836? Republicans hit the campaign trail in overwhelming numbers once before
• 07/10/15: Obama's desperation for an Iran nuclear deal mirrors a predecessor's futile arm-twisting
• 06/19/15: The tortuous history of Father's Day neckties
• 03/13/15: A presidential library for Obama's fairy tales
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