The Federal Open Market Committee meets Tuesday to discuss its record-low interest rate policy.
What are the unforeseen consequences of a low interest rate policy for years to come?
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The impact on savers is always a partial offset to the benefit to borrowers of a low interest rate policy, but this combination has gone on too long.
Part of an easy money, low interest rate monetary policy is to get corporate investors to take on risk and invest their money in production.
We expect the reflation trends, dating from the U.S. shift to a low real interest rate policy in 2002, to continue for now, pushing prices up in most asset classes.
The president pointed to the hopeful economic signs of low inflation, sound monetary policy, low interest rates and increasing productivity.
Don't expect the Federal Reserve to end its low-interest-rate policy anytime soon.
There was no suggestion, however, that doing so would bring their accommodative monetary policy (low interest rates) to an end.
Ballooning annual federal deficits have created artificial GDP growth which is being fueled by artificially low interest rates created by Fed policy.
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Fueled by low interest rates, sound fiscal policy and robust demand for its commodities, Brazil is a darling of emerging markets these days.
Making matters worse, because low interest rates have undercut the policy's investment returns, Mandell must double his premiums to keep the insurance in force beyond 2005.
But a weaker economy, and low interest rates, and government policy mis-steps that have turned investors off to Brazil soon turned the real into the weaker currency Mantega wanted all along.
Rather, they have argued, the Clinton administration's low level of interest in energy policy has brought about current gasoline price spikes in some areas of the nation -- most notably in the Midwest.
Two decades of stimulative, low-interest-rate fiscal policy have made Japan the most indebted nation in the developed world, and as new Prime Minister Naoto Kan recently said, in his first address to Parliament, that situation is not sustainable.
"The key thing for the American people is to realize is that the fundamentals for economic vitality and growth are there -- low interest rates, good monetary policy, productivity increases, economic vitality and growth in the first quarter, " he said.
"Britain needs low interest rates, and we can only keep interest rates low if we have a credible policy on debt, " Mr Cameron said.
Another might be worries that America's rebound is unsustainable, being based on a seemingly reckless fiscal policy, unusually low interest rates, and a consumer borrowing binge.
The Federal Reserve, along with other major central banks across the globe, are engaged in ultra-loose monetary policy, using low interest rates and asset purchases (i.e. quantitative easing, or QE) to help support their economies.
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He cited the country's low rates of interest as the ultimate growth policy.
The truth is that, except for low short-term interest rates, monetary policy has not been easy for quite a while.
But that's partly due to the Federal Reserve's policy of maintaining historically low interest rates through its bond-buying program, he thinks.
The financial crisis resulted from expansionary monetary policy and the resulting low interest rates, which led to excessive borrowing for investment in housing.
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Surowiecki points out that the main reason interest rates are low is not Fed policy but the weak economy, which has restrained the demand for credit.
In the third quarter of 2009, the economy began to recover, in large part due to export growth, low interest rates, and an expansionary fiscal policy, and growth was 3.6% in 2011.
If and when it buys bonds, Mr Draghi is likely to say that this is to improve the transmission of the ECB's existing monetary policy - making sure low interest rates get through to countries like Spain - not announce a new one.
The country needs a low cost of carry for this amount of debt to stay manageable, so low interest rates take on a red-alert policy emphasis.
Ryan said he felt fear that because Bernanke denied the Fed was responsible for the crisis, via ultra low interest rates for too long, his current policy mix could cause economic disruptions to a possibly catastrophic magnitude.
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Despite years of low interest rates and increasing competition among banks (which keeps rates low), budding entrepreneurs and policy wonks still lament a lack of access to capital.
In the 1930s low interest rates were interpreted as a sign that monetary policy was loose.
Fed policy will keep interest rates very low and this will continue to drive stock prices higher.
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