Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Record low interest rates are still NEEDED to ENERGIZE the economic recovery?????
Reminds me of the greenspan era with record low rates, a high flying real estate market and credit crisis to follow, go Yellen, keep thinking low interest rates are going to help more than harm the economy going forward.
At this point why not just make it mandatory to keep rates at 0% forever, no need to raise them when the market is high flying and the economy gaining ground with a 6% GDP rate.
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Reuters | March 23, 2010 | 03:59 PM EDT
A Federal Reserve official says record-low interest rates are still needed to energize the economic recovery.
Janet Yellen, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and President Barack Obama's top pick to be vice chair of the central bank, says the sluggish recovery she anticipates means unemployment will stay high for years.
The jobless rateânow at 9.7 percentâwill dip only to 9.25 percent by the end of this year and then to 8 percent by the end of 2011, she predicts.
Despite encouraging signs late last year, the housing market now "seems to have stalled," she says.
Yellen says the Fed was right last week to keep a pledge to hold rates at record lows for an "extended period." The decision drew one dissent.
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Record low interest rates are still NEEDED to ENERGIZE the economic recovery?????
Reminds me of the greenspan era with record low rates, a high flying real estate market and credit crisis to follow, go Yellen, keep thinking low interest rates are going to help more than harm the economy going forward.
At this point why not just make it mandatory to keep rates at 0% forever, no need to raise them when the market is high flying and the economy gaining ground with a 6% GDP rate.
Record Low Interest Rates Must Stay for Now: Yellen
Reuters | March 23, 2010 | 03:59 PM EDT
A Federal Reserve official says record-low interest rates are still needed to energize the economic recovery.
Janet Yellen, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and President Barack Obama's top pick to be vice chair of the central bank, says the sluggish recovery she anticipates means unemployment will stay high for years.
The jobless rateânow at 9.7 percentâwill dip only to 9.25 percent by the end of this year and then to 8 percent by the end of 2011, she predicts.
Despite encouraging signs late last year, the housing market now "seems to have stalled," she says.
Yellen says the Fed was right last week to keep a pledge to hold rates at record lows for an "extended period." The decision drew one dissent.