Economics

How Does Raising Interest Rates Curb Inflation?

Interest rates are its primary weapon in the fight against inflation. According to Yiming Ma, an assistant finance professor at Columbia University Business School, the Fed does this by determining the short-term borrowing rate for commercial banks, which subsequently pass those rates on to consumers and companies. This increased rate affects the interest you pay

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How To Cut Inflation?

Governments can fight inflation by imposing wage and price limits, but this can lead to a recession and job losses. Governments can also use a contractionary monetary policy to combat inflation by limiting the money supply in an economy by raising interest rates and lowering bond prices. Another measure used by governments to limit inflation

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