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FOMC Projections and Press Conference

by Calculated Risk on 3/20/2024 02:10:00 PM Statement here. Fed Chair Powell press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET. Here are the projections.  Since the last projections were released, the economy has performed close to FOMC expectations. In December, the FOMC participants’ midpoint of the target level for the

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US military chief visits weapon factories to press the need to supply Ukraine

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown is visiting U.S. weapon factories with lawmakers to voice the importance of a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine. Brown is accompanied by lawmakers representing factory workforces, addressing concerns over sending billions overseas. Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton and Oklahoma Sen. John Lankford, originally scheduled to accompany Brown, will

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Netanyahu Rejects Biden’s Rebuke and Vows to Press on With Rafah Operation

A day after President Biden asserted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel,” Mr. Netanyahu dismissed that contention as “wrong,” escalating the leaders’ increasingly public dispute. Mr. Netanyahu, in an interview with Politico, challenged Mr. Biden’s assessment of Israel’s military strategy in the Gaza Strip, and said that

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Blinken heads to Middle East to press for Gaza truce

On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s attack that triggered the war, Blinken will visit Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt and Qatar. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East for another crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war, as southern Gaza

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