Fed Considers Rate Cut as Recession Fears Mount

Oh well

zero percent interest rates here we come.

but its definitely not like japan.

yeh rightooooooooooooooooo.



Federal Reserve officials are weighing further interest-rate cuts, even if Congress passes a $700 billion rescue plan, in the face of a deteriorating economic outlook and severely strained financial conditions.

The Fed's willingness to consider additional cuts marks a turnaround from the past few months, when soaring food and energy prices turned its attention to inflation risks. At a regular September meeting, after oil prices had receded, officials still declined to move the central bank's federal-funds target rate from 2%.

A reduction in rates is still far from certain, in part because of inflation worries. But in just the past ...

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