Short-term interest rates remain unchanged as honchos in the Federal Reserve try to figure out which is the greater danger: inflation or recession.

After reading this article I wondered what I have missed in my basic education. Do you have to take a class in interpretting what this means in our lives? It seems the economy and anything that affects it is so far beyond the individual consumers control that it is down right depressing.

My question to you, the reader is:

“What can we as consumers do to help the economy turn around and start looking hopeful again?”