WASHINGTON - Bringing inflation down was never expected to be so pain-free.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned of hard times ahead after the Fed began jacking up interest rates in the spring o.
The Labor Department is expected to report that employers added a still-solid 160,000 jobs in December 2023, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet.
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