I was contacted by the local newspaper on interest rate changes and they ended up using a couple quotes I provided. The full article is here, and and two excerpts are below.
Matthew Rousu, dean of Susquehanna University’s Sigmund Weis School of Business, said a rate cut would impact the cost of borrowing, which would have a downstream impact. He noted that an immediate impact may remain elusive.
“The overall impact takes some time,” Rousu said. “And what is tricky about what the Fed does with interest rates is you are often not quite certain where you are as an economy and when the right time to cut rates is.”
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“… in today’s political climate every action done that affects the economy will be viewed by some people as political,” Rousu said. “The Fed has a dual mandate: to keep inflation low and to try to keep unemployment rates low as well.”