Sentences with phrase «fed keeps interest rates low»

Moreover, the same logic argues that if the Fed keeps interest rates low, it will not be able to raise inflation.

Government officials hoping that the Fed keeps interest rates low to help finance the debt load might be out of luck.

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The bond purchases, the third round of quantitative easing embarked upon by the Fed in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse and subsequent recession, have kept interest rates and bond yields low.

Trump accused the Fed of keeping interest rates low for «political reasons» and as a boon to President Obama, according to Reuters.

The bond buy - backs are a component of the Fed's quantitative easing program, whose goal is to inject liquidity into markets and keep interest rates low.

The U.S. Fed is keeping interest rates recklessly low.

During the campaign, Trump claimed that the Fed was working with the Obama administration in order to keep interest rates artificially low to benefit Obama and Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Outgoing Fed Chair Janet Yellen has raised concerns about the trend — hence the bias to keep interest rates low.

Yellen suggested the Fed may want to run a «high - pressure economy,» and keep interest rates lower.

He's been putting a lot of blame on the Fed for keeping interest rates low for so long.

Even among her Fed peers, she stands out as a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenrath.

The Fed will likely ease further through «open - ended» purchases of Treasuries and mortgages and extend its pledge to keep interest rates low into 2015, he said.

He touted robust employment, low inflation and accelerating economic growth, and he said the Fed would continue its strategy of gradually increasing its benchmark interest rate to keep inflation in check.

The U.K. referendum, while adding volatility, reinforced some of these trends, most notably driving expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) would keep interest rates low for longer.

Interest rates have continued to be pushed lower and lower and lower and most of this is because the Fed keeps on adjusting that federal fund's rate and adjusting interest rates down in the way that they do that is by putting cash into the market and buying back bonds or short - term bonds with the federal fundInterest rates have continued to be pushed lower and lower and lower and most of this is because the Fed keeps on adjusting that federal fund's rate and adjusting interest rates down in the way that they do that is by putting cash into the market and buying back bonds or short - term bonds with the federal fundinterest rates down in the way that they do that is by putting cash into the market and buying back bonds or short - term bonds with the federal fund's rate.

If traders feel that the Fed is keeping interest rates too low for too long and / or the economy is heating up too quickly and inflation is coming, then longer term interest rates will rise.

However, the Fed, in its wisdom and at the behest of intelligent idiots such as Paul Krugman and Paul McCulley, kept interest rates at artificially low levels for years and aggressively ramped up the money supply with the aim of speeding the recovery process.

At the end of World War II, the Treasury pressured the Fed to keep interest rates artificially low to minimize the government's interest costs on its ballooning debt.

After halting its (maybe) final round of QE in late 2014, the Fed gave Wall Street an early Christmas present that just keeps on giving — artificially low interest rates.

What everyone most wants to know is when the Fed is going to start tapering off its bond - buying program (called Quantitative Easing), which has flooded the banking system with money for the past five years and kept interest rates abnormally low.

Peter Schiff describes a scenario wherein the FED has to choose between sacrificing the US Dollar in order to keep interest rates low, or letting US debt get slaughtered.

Despite critics warning that the Fed's policies to keep interest rates low would stoke asset bubbles and inflation, Yellen took a cautious and data - driven approach to withdrawing the stimulus.

The Fed kept its key interest rate at a record low near zero for seven years until December 2015.

The Fed is buying $ 85 billion of U.S. government bonds and other securities with the aim of keeping interest rates low to support economic recovery.

Moreover, by keeping short - run interest rates near zero for more than seven years, paying interest on excess reserves (IOER) above the effective fed funds rate, and convincing markets that rates would stay low for a long time (forward guidance), the Fed has increased the reach for yield and appears more interested in priming Wall Street than in letting markets set interest rates and allocate credfed funds rate, and convincing markets that rates would stay low for a long time (forward guidance), the Fed has increased the reach for yield and appears more interested in priming Wall Street than in letting markets set interest rates and allocate credFed has increased the reach for yield and appears more interested in priming Wall Street than in letting markets set interest rates and allocate credit.

With the housing situation in turmoil and because of the general economic malaise, the Fed has been keeping interest rates low.

In the short term the massive money printing by the Fed & other central banks will likely continue to support the stock market, keep interest rates low, and sustain investor and consumer confidence.

The Ukraine crisis and the Fed's near zero interest rate policy continued to keep yields low.

It is popular these days to lay all blame at the feet of the Fed for keeping interest rates artificially low.

I guess Ben Bernanke and the Fed are not going to get their way with you: — RRB -, insofar as keeping interest rates low so that, as one consequence, folks tend to keep their money in stocks.

Their debt has been relatively affordable since the Fed has kept interest rates low for the past 8 years.

In October 2014, we came to the end of the Fed's Quantitative Easing program, a process intended to keep long term interest rates low though the purchase of Treasury Bonds and to keep mortgage credit flowing at low rates though the purchase of agency - issued Mortgage - Backed Securities (MBS).

The betting on the Street is that the Fed will undertake some kind of quantitative easing, another name for money printing, at this meeting, which will keep interest rates low.

Lack of volatility is due to fed, keeping interest rates low, and high liquidity.

If bond yields rise 0.25 % when the Fed is buying 70 % of the bonds and keeping interest rates artificially low, those yields will experience a stratospheric zoom after June 30, when Bernanke's «QE2» bond - purchase program comes to an end.

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Keep in mind that currently, low interest rates have caused everyone in the real estate profession to hold their breaths for a possible fed rate increase, which can mean a fixed mortgage at these low rates may be a better chance for more security in the long run.

Buck dumpers also emphasized the tremendous amount of dollars being pumped out by the Fed and the Treasury 70 in their attempt to revitalize the economy 68 and the Fed's clearly - stated commitment to keep short - term interest rates low for an extended period.

The Fed will make its next announcement on interest rates and provide some clarity on the end of quantitative easing, the stimulus program of massive bond buying that kept long - term rates low and encouraged a rally on stock markets.

With interest rates so low and the Fed trapped into keeping them that way how can you earn decent current income without taking unreasonable or unknowable risks?

Because inflation has been so low for the past five years, the Fed has kept interest rates near zero in an effort to spur economic growth.

Currently, the Fed expects inflation to remain just below 2 percent per year, and that should keep interest rate increases to a predictable and low level.

This could change if interest rates continue to rise, but the Fed seems committed to a gradual approach that will keep rates relatively low for some time.2

The Fed is serious about keeping bond yield (interest rates) low through the middle of next year.

If the Fed maintains its commitment to keep interest rates low, the LIBOR, 10 - year swap rate, and conventional mortgage rates are likely to remain low.

The Fed committed to keep the federal funds rate within a 0.0 to 0.25 percent target range through mid-2015 to keep short - term interest rates low.

Now, with interest rates so low on the short end, there is one further risk: that the Fed would keep rates low simply to keep the US Government's financing costs down.

Fed keeps rates low amid mixed economic signals — The Federal Reserve indicated that it remains on course to hike interest rates later this year... (See FOMC meeting Jan. 28, 2015)

However, he worked for the Fed before becoming Treasury Secretary so, unsurprisingly, Geithner doesn't mention as a cause of the real estate boom that the Fed kept interest rates too low, too long in 2002 - 2004.

Louis predicts that at the upcoming Fed meeting there will be no change in monetary policy and that their policy will be designed to keep interest rates low.