The Fed Holds the Fed Funds Rate Steady—Because it Doesn't Know What Else To Do

The last decade has shown us that the Fed clings to a bias very much in favor of ramming down interest rates again and again. This is what happened in the ten years of near-zero rates that followed the 2008 financial crisis.

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