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The Fed is right to go slow on raising interest rates
All year long, the Federal Reserve has been stuck between a rock and a hard place: Wall Street sentiment and the economic data it has to follow. In January, the unemployment rate was 5.7%, and most observers believed the threat of inflation meant a rate hike would make sense sometime this year. But inflation didn’t happen, so the Federal Open Market Committee has struggled to justify a compromise — raising rates a tiny bit this year and stopping. Some have argued a small rate increase was an important way for the Fed to buy insurance — that it would have more ammunition to fight a downturn if rates were above ... (full story)
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