Sources & evidence
Every source behind The Global Rate-Hiking Cycle: Who Paid for the Fight against Inflation?, and the claims they support.
Claims & provenance
The dated Fact “The Federal Reserve began a cycle of interest-rate increases” anchors the Article's chronology.
supported
The reviewed dated Fact and primary-source package establish the chronology without converting sequence into causation.
Monetary-Policy Tightness is used as a bounded continuing mechanism, not as a moral score or a complete causal model.
partially supported
The continuing Driver is a bounded explanatory mechanism accompanied by alternatives, not a complete causal allocation.
Difficulty making ends meet supplies a defined welfare measurement lens but cannot identify cause by itself.
supported
The linked Indicator supplies a defined welfare measurement lens; it is not treated as proof of a unique causal effect.
All sources
| Source | Publisher | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | statement |
| World Development Indicators: Real interest rate (%) | World Bank | dataset |
| IMF Data Standards Initiatives | www.imf.org | official_document |
| OECD Well-being Data Monitor — Current Well-being: Difficulty making ends meet | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | official_statistical_dataset |
| OECD Well-being Data Monitor — Current Well-being | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | official_documentation |
| World Development Indicators: Trade (% of GDP) | World Bank | dataset |
| World Trade Organization statistics methodology | www.wto.org | official_document |