New Module on Economy And Business: The Interest Rate
18 Jul
This module is the second in the block economy and business, and explains how interest rate is changed to control the economy. I explain how does it work in the United States, and also in how the same thing is done in The European Union.
Building of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,were the US interest rate is 'manipulated'.
The Interest rate is the price of money and is a powerful tool to change the liquidity in a economy. In other words, depending on the rate, there will be a lot of investment or nothing. Because of the financial crisis, the fed funds rate was set to 0% since December 2008 to boost the economy. This means that there isn’t more ammunition with the interest rates, and many economists predicted a disaster because this stimulus wouldn’t be enough.
