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Voters Want the Fed to Stop Raising Interest Rates—Someone Tell the Media

These are some of the key findings of a new poll conducted by Lake Research Partners and published by the progressive group Groundwork Collaborative. It’s a remarkable poll partially because of how unique it is. Despite inflation ranking as a…

March 8, 2023 Objective Propaganda (Substack)
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Few Signs of US Companies Curbing Profits After Powell Says it Could Cool Inflation.

"Corporate profits and higher margins have been a key driver of inflation and as they start to ease we will see lower prices in real life," said Rakeen Mabud, chief economist at progressive advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative. "What works going…

March 8, 2023 Reuters
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ICYMI: Sen. Warren Grills Powell on Interest Rate Hikes

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sharply questioned Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell about his interest rate hike regime, noting that Powell’s own projections suggest that Fed policy will push 2 million Americans out of work.

March 7, 2023 Groundwork Collaborative
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200 U.S. Economists Tell Congress: Raise Debt Ceiling

The list of letter signatories includes Joseph Stiglitz, a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, as well as former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Roger Ferguson, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Groundwork Collaborative chief economist Rakeen Mabud and…

March 6, 2023 The Financial District
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Fed’s Powell, in Hill Appearance, to Update Views on Status of ‘Disinflation’

Fed rate hikes "are designed to harm the labor market. We are not seeing inflation because of greedy workers ... What we have seen is a host of factors" driving inflation, from expanded profit margins to the Ukraine war, that…

March 6, 2023 Kitco
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‘Voters Are Not Confident in the Federal Reserve,’ New Dem Poll Finds

The criticisms of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from the left have been steadily ratcheting up each time the central bank has gathered in recent months to raise interest rates. The message appears to be breaking through with a wide…

March 6, 2023 Yahoo! Finance
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Majority of US Voters Want the Fed to Stop Raising Rates Before It Tanks the Economy: Poll

Conducted by Lake Research Partners and published by the Groundwork Collaborative, the new poll found that 56% of U.S. voters believe the Fed should bring its rate hikes to a halt as top central bankers indicate that more increases are…

March 6, 2023 Common Dreams
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Threat To Raise Rates Inspires Bipartisan Pushback

A poll released Monday by Groundwork Collaborative, a group of progressive economic experts, found 56% of voters want the Fed to stop raising rates, with 54% of respondents saying the rate hikes should stop even if that meant prices would…

March 6, 2023 Huffington Post
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NEW POLL: Voters Distrust Federal Reserve

Groundwork Collaborative released new polling from Lake Research highlighting voters’ attitudes toward the economy.

March 6, 2023 Groundwork Collaborative
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People and Profits: Strengthening Antitrust Policy for Fairer Economic Outcomes

Most importantly, we should be centring people in our policymaking. Making this shift is critical to creating economic conditions where everyone—not just giant corporations and the privileged few—can thrive. Because as we like to say at Groundwork: “We are the…

March 4, 2023 OECD Forum Network
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