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COVID-19

What if the economy needs more than the Fed can give it?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Mar 3, 2020

The U.S. government may need to spend its way out of a coronavirus-induced slowdown.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced an interest rate cut of half a percentage point Tuesday.

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