united states and all around the world, i m max foster in london. just ahead they like to use that power to strip us of our freedoms, our freedom to vote to be safe from gun violence, our freedom to control our own bodies in the state of georgia. government can build an economy is just complete fallacy. it never worked anywhere. voter suppression is just as much a lie as voter fraud. i turn around and i told the crowd, you can t come this way. people are dying. announcer: live, from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster. it is monday, october 31st, 8:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where the final stretch of the midterm elections has begun. so far more than 20 million early ballots have been cast and to get more votes candidates are hitting the campaign trail with some urgency. polls show republicans have a slight edge right now and trying to keep that advantage by pledging to fix the economy. this is our year. democrats ca
against democrats. the federal reserve is poised to raise interest rates by three quarters of 1% again on wednesday. it would be the fourth-straight supersized hike. and it s still possible another rate increase of that magnitude could come before the end of the year. tl also a growing chorus warning fed chair jerome powell, fearing the rate hikes could lead to recession. joe biden and other top democrats are making their case and hoping to sway undecided voters. we re following developments from wilmington, delaware. reporter: democrats are narrowing their closing argument now in the final stretch of this midterm campaign. and they re centering on this warning about what might happen if republicans were to gain control of congress. and you hear that from president biden, from the first lady, from the vice president, even from
The FOMC hiked rates 75 bps Wednesday, the largest rate boost since Greenspan’s lone 75 bps move more than 27 years ago (November 1994). For anything bigger, it’s back to the Volcker era.