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Interest Rates: The Fed's Main Tool

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Devin Park traces one FOMC vote all the way from the bank-to-bank overnight rate to a customer's prime-based mortgage or credit card bill. Two real charts on the 2022 to 2023 hike cycle back a recommendation memo for the next meeting.

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