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The Iran War Is Complicating How the Fed Makes Rate Decisions | Big Take
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17:18Now PlayingThe Federal Open Market Committee announced this afternoon that it would hold interest rates steady. The decision comes in spite of spiking oil prices and new market uncertainty driven by the Iran War.
On today’s Big Take podcast, host David Gura sits down with Bloomberg Federal Reserve reporter Amara Omeokwe and Wharton professor and historian Peter Conti-Brown to discuss how the Fed is thinking about the Iran War and its impacts on the US economy — and what could shift its calculus in the months ahead.
Read moreFed to Hold Interest Rates Steady as Iran War Scrambles the Economic Outlook ()
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