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- September 2019 IMET Monthly Newsletter Tuesday, September 17, 2019 in Monthly Newsletters View More
- Fed Officials are Divided over Whether the Economy Needs More Rate Cuts Thursday, August 22, 2019 in Media View More
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Libraries as Community Development Partners, Session at Downstate ICMA
Monday, August 12, 2019 in Goings on for Illinois Agencies
Diana Brawley Sussman, Director of the Carbondale Public Library, presented an out-of-the-box perspective on libraries and community development during a joint conference in Carbondale held by the Downstate City/County Managers Association and the Southwestern Illinois City Managers Association on August 9th.
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Feds Block Tax Breaks for Donating to these Charitable State Funds
Friday, June 14, 2019 in Media
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have issued final rules blocking certain states’ attempts to work around the new $10,000 cap for state and local tax deductions.
View More - June 2019 IMET Monthly Newsletter Friday, June 14, 2019 in Monthly Newsletters View More
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Don't Count on the Fed Cutting Rates When the Economy is this Good
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 in Media
"Fade the futures.” That’s market jargon for going against the financial futures market, in this case the contracts on what the federal-funds rate will be in months hence. The market is betting on multiple reductions in the Federal Reserve’s main interest-rate target later this year. The trouble is, the futures market was just as certain late last year that multiple rate increases were ahead.
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Fed's Bullard Says Rate Cut May Be Needed "Soon"
Monday, June 3, 2019 in Media
The Federal Reserve may need to cut interest rates soon to prop up inflation and counter downside economic risks from an escalating trade war, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said.
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