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Why the Fed is changing interest-rate goals

Nov 21, 2016
The interest rate target is worryingly low.
Stanley Fischer testifies before the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on his nomination to be the Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on March 13, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. 
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