Fed's rate decision next week: conflicting positions between US voters and EM central bankers

Friday, September 11th 2015 - 10:34 UTC

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As the Federal Reserve gets ready to debate its interest rate policy stance next week, a poll released Thursday finds a strong majority of US voters surveyed want central bankers to refrain from boosting short-term interest rates, and to instead concentrate on using monetary policy to further boost the job market. Read full article

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ChrisR
The US would love inflation, as long as it can be controlled, because it reduces the burden of their massive debt.

Whether small interest rates will create inflation has to be open to doubt given that we are told all the savings goes into shares and not on deposit.

Will it be this month or December? I think the “confidence” survey due next Wednesday is likely to give a hint at the possibilities.
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