Why haven't the rate hikes had the expected effect 18 months later?
Macroeconomics textbooks state that the effects of monetary policy have a lag of 18 months. It has now been more than 18 months since Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced the first rate hikes to contain inflation. But the U.S. economy is holding up much better than expected.
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