How Do Interest Rates Affect the Economy?
It is the rate banks pay for overnight borrowing in the federal funds market.
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1.What is the Fed's primary tool?
It is the rate banks pay for overnight borrowing in the federal funds market.
2.When the policy rate goes up, what tends to happen to new loan rates?
The ECB says the central bank rate affects money-market rates directly, and lending and deposit rates indirectly.
3.Why can the oven Leo wanted wait when rates rise?
So the oven may wait, and so may the baker he would have hired.
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- How does the Federal Reserve affect inflation and employment? (Federal Reserve Board, FAQ)
- The transmission mechanism of monetary policy (European Central Bank)
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