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Re:Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75% by hgomersall on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:23PM (#31758952)
Why should they have raised interest rates? Standard economic dogma has it that below target inflation like the last 15 years needed low interest rates to get it back up. Or could it be that standard economic dogma is a steaming pile of horse shit?
Re:Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75% by rurp on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:43PM (#31760361)
Sure inflation was low for buying food or milk or whatever, but was much higher than 2% in some massive areas of the economy, like stocks and housing. Keeping rates so low created huge pressure to invest in high risk speculative assets. Crypto is basically the poster child for how absurd things have been in recent years.