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This week we are seeing the shadow of a new recession. Although the GDP growth in the US is being higher than the expected, today, the Dow had a day in red and felt by 0.31% to 9712 points. But there Isn’t motive to alarm, this week we had many macroeconomic news.

We must be optimistic, according to the Inflation record in the European Union of the 16 , the Eurozone inflation felt more than expected by a 0.3 per cent year on year in September. This means that the ECB will not have to raise interests in order to contain the inflation, and the European economy will continue be boosted at least the whole 2010.

In despite of these good news, there are some black clouds in the skyline. The PMI of Chicago has been unexpectedly low this month, 46.1 points versus the 50 points of August. This means that central United States are destroying economic activity, and if we sum that this month the market lost 254.000 jobs instead of the expected 210.000, it’s not difficult to understand why many people is opting for sell their risky assets.

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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.

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