Segments From This Episode

• How the economy responds to Fed decisions is … complicated

  by Matt Levin

  

  When the Fed cuts interest rates, people expect mortgage rates to also go down. But in 2024, the opposite happened.

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• In Crossville, Tennessee, higher living costs are a “hard pill” to swallow

  by Kai Ryssdal, Nela Richardson and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  Two community outposts in the town of Crossville aim to ease the stresses of seniors on fixed incomes.

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• For this customs broker, trade policy is still "wait and see"

  by Sean McHenry

  For Gretchen Blough, a customs broker in Erie, Pennsylvania, business is “a little bit of confusion mixed in with a lot of answering questions for customers that we really can’t answer.”

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