This does not mean that inflation had no increases during this period. Matter of fact, the overall rate of inflation did increase and this could be directly tied to the higher energy prices of that year. This as you can imagine made forecasting for the year a little challenging for the Federal Reserve and when they met at their semiannual meeting the decision was made to leave the federal fund rate with minimal increase...
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This as you can imagine made forecasting for the year a little challenging for the Federal Reserve and when they met at their semiannual meeting the decision was made to leave the federal fund rate with minimal increase. This decision I believe was largely in part to the surprising recovery of the foreign economies plus the leveling of the U...
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