{"id":107637,"date":"2026-02-07T04:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107637\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:24:17","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-2-6-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107637\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 2\/6\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does the Federal Reserve influence the economy?<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve System was established in 1913 as an independent federal agency comprising 12 regional banks and a board of governors, serving as the central bank of the United States. Its decisions significantly impact the banking systems, businesses, and the public.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 2\/6\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does the Federal Reserve influence the economy? The Federal Reserve System was established in 1913 as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-107637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}