Fed to Leave Rates Unchanged

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

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[EdwardBaiamonte]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

low rates are supposed to make borrowing and investing easier.

 

[HenryBHough]

The slightest upward nudge in rates would have driven stocks even lower and the economy from feeble growth to rampant recession. Hardly the legacy for one who seems set on cementing THAT as race war!

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

The slightest upward nudge in rates would have driven stocks even lower and the economy from feeble growth to rampant recession.

I doubt it especially if they said it could be reversed in an instant and that there would be no further rate hikes this year.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

low rates are supposed to make borrowing and investing easier.

There is little incentive to invest when your ROI is too low.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The slightest upward nudge in rates would have driven stocks even lower and the economy from feeble growth to rampant recession. Hardly the legacy for one who seems set on cementing THAT as race war!

Stocks would have dropped for a day or two because that's the typical drama of Wall Street, but no, it would not create a recession. We've had too low interest rates for too long.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

low rates are supposed to make borrowing and investing easier.

There is little incentive to invest when your ROI is too low.

what is connection between low rates and ROI???

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

low rates are supposed to make borrowing and investing easier.

There is little incentive to invest when your ROI is too low.

what is connection between low rates and ROI???

Special Ed, admit you don't have the IQ to understand.

Economists: Risks of low interest rates are growing

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

low rates are supposed to make borrowing and investing easier.

There is little incentive to invest when your ROI is too low.

what is connection between low rates and ROI???

Special Ed, admit you don't have the IQ to understand.

Economists: Risks of low interest rates are growing

what is connection between low rates and ROI?? Why be so afraid to tell us?? What does your fear teach us?

 

[MastaYoda]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

low rates are supposed to make borrowing and investing easier.

There is little incentive to invest when your ROI is too low.

what is connection between low rates and ROI???

Special Ed, admit you don't have the IQ to understand.

Economists: Risks of low interest rates are growing

what is connection between low rates and ROI?? Why be so afraid to tell us?? What does your fear teach us?

Wouldn't a low interest rate earned on your money in the bank, spark money's move to the stock market in search of an ROI? Technically, the ROI you are currently earning on your savings is effectively zero, so the ROI capable in the stock market (even if it is low) would be more beneficial.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

low rates are supposed to make borrowing and investing easier.

There is little incentive to invest when your ROI is too low.

what is connection between low rates and ROI???

Special Ed, admit you don't have the IQ to understand.

Economists: Risks of low interest rates are growing

what is connection between low rates and ROI?? Why be so afraid to tell us?? What does your fear teach us?

Wouldn't a low interest rate earned on your money in the bank, spark money's move to the stock market in search of an ROI? Technically, the ROI you are currently earning on your savings is effectively zero, so the ROI capable in the stock market (even if it is low) would be more beneficial.

yes that is the reason interest rates are low, i.e, so money will be forced to move into investments that will stimulate the economy.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

dear rates are low so we have easy money,i.e, money its easy to get and spend to stimulate the economy.
Do you understand/

 

[MastaYoda]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

dear rates are low so we have easy money,i.e, money its easy to get and spend to stimulate the economy.
Do you understand/

I do not believe he does. Ha

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Dumb. They need start to slowly raising interest rates again. Low rates stifle investment and can hurt economic growth.

All eyes on the Federal Reserve: Live coverage

dear rates are low so we have easy money,i.e, money its easy to get and spend to stimulate the economy.
Do you understand/

I do not believe he does. Ha

yes he's got it backwards somehow. Oh well

 

[waltky]

Interest rates to stay put for now...

Fed to sit tight on rates at March meet, hint at hikes to come
Mon Mar 14, 2016 - The Federal Reserve won't raise interest rates this week, but will likely make clear that as long as U.S. inflation and jobs continue to strengthen, economic weakness overseas won't stop rates from rising fairly soon.

That will be a big change from the last time the Fed met, when uncertainty over the impact of slower growth in China and Europe drove policymakers to signal it would stay on hold until it could make a better call on the outlook. That in turn was a setback from just a month earlier, when the Fed raised rates for the first time in nearly a decade and seemed ready to move four more times this year. This week, fresh forecasts from the Fed's 17 officials released after the meeting will almost certainly signal a retreat from that pace, to perhaps two or three rate hikes this year, economists predict and Fed officials themselves have suggested.

Snow covers the grounds of the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington​

But the expected downgrade may largely reflect the drag from the oil and stock market slide in January and the Fed's decision then to put policy on hold, rather than mounting worries over the U.S. or global outlook. Indeed, since the last Fed meeting U.S. inflation has shown signs of stabilizing, with one measure published by the Dallas Fed rising to 1.9 percent, its closest to the Fed's 2 percent goal in 2-1/2 years. Meanwhile, the U.S. unemployment rate held at 4.9 percent in February, near the level many Fed officials believe represents full employment.

The European Central Bank's decision last week to ease policy further may help add to confidence that action has been taken to underpin growth in Europe, helping ensure a stalling of global growth drag on the U.S. That could mean another U.S. rate hike by mid-year and, depending on economic data, more to come after that. "June seems certainly like a possibility" for the Fed's next rate hike, said former Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, whose own preference is for the Fed to take out "insurance" against a recession by cutting rates back to near zero. Market-based inflation expectations have improved somewhat since the Fed's last meeting, he said, "a real positive" development.

INFLATION DEBATE

 

[gipper]

We have had ZIRP for nearly all of BO's reign...UNPRECEDENTED in American history...and the economy has NOT grown much. One would think continuing something that has not worked, would not be the policy the Fed would continue to follow...and now we hear of negative interest rates being considered.

It is clear ZIRP is an effort by the elites to FORCE Americans to risk their life savings in the Wall Street Casino. Wall Street loves ZIRP but should the economy crash, millions of Americans will be badly hurt and at a time when the Baby Boom is retiring.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

It is clear ZIRP is an effort by the elites to FORCE Americans to risk their life savings in the Wall Street Casino.

thats a little silly. Interest rates are low all around the world; not to get people to invest in Wall Street but to get largely socialist economies growing. True though, it is attracting money to Wall Street and the little guy could get hurt if he panics during the next crisis and sells too soon.

 

[gipper]

It is clear ZIRP is an effort by the elites to FORCE Americans to risk their life savings in the Wall Street Casino.

thats a little silly. Interest rates are low all around the world; not to get people to invest in Wall Street but to get largely socialist economies growing. True though, it is attracting money to Wall Street and the little guy could get hurt if he panics during the next crisis and sells too soon.

Where does one invest their money to get a decent return, other than Wall Street? The middle class investor risks his wealth there to get a return, because there are few other options. Should Wall Street crash, the elites probably get out beforehand or are protected, the middle class gets screwed.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

[ Should Wall Street crash, the elites probably get out beforehand or are protected, the middle class gets screwed.

everyone gets screwed if they sell too soon. Don't forget half the elite banks went bankrupt in the housing crash so its hard to say the elites get out