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Raising interest rates with zero inflation remains a hard sell
Published Thu, Aug 6, 2015 · 09:50 PM
London
AMERICANS and Britons bracing themselves for their first interest-rate rises in almost a decade are puzzled: Why are rates about to go up when there's no inflation?
Both the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England (BOE) are proclaiming that they are on the cusp of raising interest rates for the first time in almost a decade.
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