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Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising

by Ellen Brown

The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150% of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what is driving the Fed’s push to “tighten”? On March 31st the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time in 3 years […]

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Ellen Brown | April 22, 2018 at 6:28 a

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