AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: CAP Experts on This Week’s FOMC Meeting and Potential Interest Rate Hike

Washington, D.C. — Economic policy experts from the Center for American Progress are available for comment this week on the last Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, meeting of the year, which will conclude tomorrow in Washington. The FOMC is expected to announce at 2:30 p.m. ET tomorrow whether it will raise interest rates. If it votes to do so, as many experts are predicting, it will be the first rate increase since 2006.

Available CAP experts include:

• Marc Jarsulic, Vice President, Economic Policy
• Andy Green, Managing Director, Economic Policy
• Michael Madowitz, Economist

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To arrange an interview, contact Allison Preiss at apreiss@americanprogress.org or 202.478.6331.

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