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Fed’s Neel Kashkari says rate hikes ‘were not called for’ and that policy has been ‘too tight’
The Federal Reserve erred by raising interest rates during the recovery, part of a policy implementation that misread key signals and threatened to send the economy into recession, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said Thursday. In an unusually harsh rebuke of central bank actions, Kashkari said the central bank shouldn’t have tightened monetary policy with inflation so low. Instead, he said, the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee should be signaling that it will allow inflation to run higher than the 2% target, a move that would send a clear signal that the Fed is serious about stimulating the ... (full story)
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