Hamilton Mobley

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The Fed Keeps Rates at 0%

The Federal Reserve kept the Federal Funds Rate at zero. What a surprise

They wrote,

“The ongoing public health crisis will weigh heavily on economic activity, employment, and inflation in the near term, and poses considerable risks to the economic outlook over the medium term. In light of these developments, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent. The Committee expects to maintain this target range until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is on track to achieve its maximum employment and price stability goals.”[1]

The federal debt also passed the $26 trillion mark today.

"Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." -John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter VI pg 236


[1]https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20200610a.htm