There Is A Real Chance You Are Getting Bad Information About Interest Rates... Episode 290

There Is A Real Chance You Are Getting Bad Information About Interest Rates... ...rates have actually gone down the last 3 weeks and very few have noticed The Fed is about to hold the last meeting with Jerome Powell as its leader April 28-29 They have not changed the federal funding rate since December of 2025 and no one is expecting any changes being made at this weeks meeting so how is that rates have come down recently? back in February rates at 6% were available in the market the government shut down the Iran war started and rates floated upward to the 6.5% range it wasn't due to any fed meeting decisions it was due to market conditions and now we rates have come down 3 weeks in a row and the stock market recently hit an all time high once again due to market conditions as much as people want to control the narrative and artificially adjust things by pulling levers it all comes down to the choices that people make to purchase or not purchase things to invest or not invest in things to grow or not grow businesses and when you take a moment to really think about it its a pretty simple thing to sort out today's show unlocks what it really going on with interest rates

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