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Suffering from Fed rate hike anxiety? You're not the only one

  • Written by Alexander Kurov, Associate Professor of Finance, West Virginia University

I saw one of my undergraduate students reading the Wall Street Journal the other day. I’m a finance professor, so this was a welcome sight.

“What’s happening in the markets?” I asked. He said he wanted to learn more about this week’s Federal Reserve meeting about whether or not to raise its target interest rate, which...

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