The president pointed to the hopeful economic signs of low inflation, sound monetary policy, low interest rates and increasing productivity.
"Britain needs low interest rates, and we can only keep interest rates low if we have a credible policy on debt, " Mr Cameron said.
There was no suggestion, however, that doing so would bring their accommodative monetary policy (low interest rates) to an end.
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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But that's partly due to the Federal Reserve's policy of maintaining historically low interest rates through its bond-buying program, he thinks.
But as Japan amply demonstrates, in recent decades, such a policy of persistently-low interest rates and rank money-printing only brings long-term economic stagnation.
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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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The deterioration is due to weak labor markets, bigger government, artificially low interest rates and the policy of weakening the dollar in the hope that it will become so cheap it becomes attractive.
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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.
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.
"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.
Fed policy will keep interest rates very low and this will continue to drive stock prices higher.
The truth is that, except for low short-term interest rates, monetary policy has not been easy for quite a while.
The Chairman, for one, would not consider that a tightening of monetary policy, especially if interest rates remained low.
Worse, the policy of manipulating interest rates to artificially low levels has interrupted the vital market-based connection between interest rates and investment decisions.
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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.
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.
He cited the country's low rates of interest as the ultimate growth policy.
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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In the 1930s low interest rates were interpreted as a sign that monetary policy was loose.
Earlier this month, the Bank's monetary policy committee voted again to maintain interest rates at the record low of 0.5%.
High levels of consumer spending and the over-heated property market, stoked by historically low interest rates, have prompted the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to raise the base rate five times in less than a year.
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept interest rates at the record-low level of 0.5% at its meeting in June.
Ms Lagarde endorsed quantitative easing by central banks such as the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan, but said that rich economies should use fiscal policy more aggressively so there was less pressure for interest rates to stay low.
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