{"id":256579,"date":"2026-07-31T19:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256579\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:16:55","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-7-31-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256579\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 7\/31\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FED held its rate steady<\/p>\n<p>During the July meeting of the Fed&#8217;s Open Market Committee (FOMC), the members decided to keep their rate unchanged, continuing the trend from their previous four meetings in 2026. The last adjustment made by the Fed was a 25-basis-point cut last December.<\/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: 7\/31\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FED held its rate steady During the July meeting of the Fed&#8217;s Open Market Committee (FOMC), the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-256579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256579","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=256579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}