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Five reasons the Fed should raise rates now
Forty-seven consecutive Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meetings resulting in an overnight target rate of 0.00 percent to 0.25 percent. Sixty-seven months of short-term interest rates being at near-zero levels. Over $3.5 trillion of growth in the monetary base. Effectively a promise not to raise rates anytime soon and that once rates do rise, they will do so very slowly. And yet, despite all of this monetary stimulus, the economy has only managed to grow at an average rate of 2.2 percent in the five years since the Great Recession ended, less than two-thirds of the 3.6 percent average quarterly growth rate from ... (full story)
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