If you were on FOMC, would you vote to raise the rate?
Only after the Republicans retake the House.
If the Fed just raises interest rates it will be catastrophic in this economy with this President, Congress and Cabinet full of radical left wing activists. I think it would be great to have a rate floor that is something above zero, but right now I have no idea how we could get there.
We need a cogent plan from the Fed and the Administration that makes sense, along with a modest (1/4 point?) increase in interest rates to begin repairing things; but I don’t see any kind of deep thinking along those lines coming out of Ben Bernancke or Premier Hussein any time soon.
Now, now ... mustn’t put our resident cheerleader in a bind.