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Reuters: Instant view: Fitch downgrades U.S. foreign currency ratings to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’
"Wendy Edelberg, Director of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.: 'I'm surprised by the timing of the downgrade because I don't …
Barron's: Fitch downgrades U.S. long-term foreign currency rating
“The decline in the average could carry some impact if investors or major funds have provisions regarding average ratings, said Wendy Edelberg, a senior fellow…
Financial Times: The new era of big government: Biden rewrites the rules of economic policy
“Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, says the objective is to engineer a ‘pretty speedy transition’ to electric vehi…
CNN Business: Inflation just fell when rate hikes were paused. So why should the Fed keep hiking?
“They now have in hand evidence of a slowing labor market, a decline in goods prices excluding food and energy, roughly unchanged prices in an important catego…
Financial Times: Millions of US borrowers brace for the return of student debt payments
“Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, said some degree of economic cooling should be welcome, with consumer spending …
Dollar & Sense Podcast: Why immigrants are America’s superpower
“Wendy Edelberg, senior fellow and director of The Hamilton Project at Brookings, discusses the positive impact of immigration on the dynamism and fiscal susta…
Axios: America may need to start caring about the deficit again
“‘The pandemic created enormous economic losses, and we used borrowing not so much to make the losses vanish into thin air but to spread them out over time,’ W…
PBS NewsHour: How an aging population poses challenges for U.S. economy, workforce and social programs
“New numbers from the Census Bureau show the U.S. population is older than it’s ever been, with the nation’s median age over 38. William Brangham spoke with Ph…
