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Previous wording

Inflation reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022, and in response the FRB increased interest rates eleven times since early 2022, from a federal funds rate range of 0.00% to 0.25% in early 2022 to 5.25% to 5.50% in July 2023. While the FRB has since reduced rates to a range of 4.25% to 4.5% as of December 2024, it has indicated a willingness to adjust rates, including slowing the pace of rate decreases or increasing rates, as it deems necessary to combat inflation. Further, Federal economic policy is rapidly evolving and thereby creating uncertainty. For example, the recent establishment of, and subsequent revision(s) to, the Federal global tariff policy was followed by market volatility and uncertainty in part due to the potential for tariffs to raise prices and thereby fuel increasing inflation and, subsequently, interest rates. Uncertainty with respect to tariffs, and the potential of elevated inflation and interest rates on U.S. consumers, are also changing spending patterns and thereby prompting concern that the U.S. could experience an economic downturn or prolonged period of slow economic growth.

Current wording

The U.S. economy has been undergoing a period of rapid change and significant uncertainty. A number of factors have been causing this change and uncertainty, including changing inflation and interest rates, evolving government policies and changing U.S. consumer spending patterns. Inflation reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022, and in response the FRB increased interest rates eleven times since early 2022, from a federal funds rate range of 0.00% to 0.25% in early 2022 to 5.25% to 5.50% in July 2023. While the FRB has since reduced rates to a range of 4.25% to 4.5% as of December 2024, it has indicated a willingness to adjust rates, including slowing the pace of rate decreases or increasing rates, as it deems necessary to combat inflation. Further, Federal economic policy is rapidly evolving and thereby creating uncertainty. For example, the recent establishment of, and subsequent revision(s) to, the Federal global tariff policy was followed by market volatility and uncertainty in part due to the potential for tariffs to raise prices and thereby fuel increasing inflation and, subsequently, interest rates. Uncertainty with respect to tariffs, and the potential of elevated inflation and interest rates on U.S. consumers, are also changing spending patterns and thereby prompting concern that the U.S. could experience an economic downturn or prolonged period of slow economic growth.