Because the US Federal Reserve and other central banks have driven their short term interest rates close to zero, they cannot lower rates further in order to prevent deflation from raising the real rate of interest. Higher real interest rates discourage credit financed purchases by households and businesses.

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If the BOJ were to succeed in raising inflation expectations, long term interest rates would necessarily have to reflect a correspondingly higher inflation premium. As long as nominal interest rates are rising because of inflation expectations, the increase is part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Additionally, raising interest rates would be a form of expansionary fiscal policy. This is because Japan has a large public debt, and increasing interest payments on that debt would put extra money in the hands of households.

The US Federal Reserve faces a dilemma, for it needs to continue raising interest rates in the face of a hurricane devastated economy. The Fed s failure to raise rates earlier thus holds a powerful lesson for the European Central Bank after a prolonged period of monetary stability at unusually low interest rates, waiting too long to raise rates to more normal and appropriate levels holds dangerous consequences.

With European interest rates up 200 basis points since late 2005 and the euro near a record high, Sarkozy wants the ECB to stop raising rates now. ECB president Jean Claude Trichet and the Governing Council strongly disagree.

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But real interest rates did not fall enough, because nominal interest rates cannot go below zero. By increasing inflation, the Fed would turn real interest rates seriously negative, thereby coercing thrifty households into spending instead of saving.

However, he believed that as the interest rate rise cycle of the Hong Kong Bank began and the Hong Kong dollar interest rates were normalizing, the situation that Hong Kong dollar interest rates were lower than US dollar interest rates would change in the future.

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Another interpretation is that awash with liquidity merely means that interest rates are low. But interest rates have been increasing around the world since 2003.

It had some success in raising donor interest in African refugee situations.

LONDON The US Federal Reserve is almost certain to start raising interest rates when the policy setting Federal Open Markets Committee next meets, on December 16. How worried should businesses, investors, and policymakers around the world be about the end of near zero interest rates and the start of the first monetary tightening cycle since 2004 2008?

Interest rates had decreased significantly for domestic and foreign currency.

The zero lower bound arises because nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero. But if nominal interest rates stay positive, while inflation is negative, then real interest rates may become too high for an economy in recession, causing recession to become more severe and prolonged.

Secondly, since the second quarter, with the weakness of the American economy and the influence of Britain's exit from the EU, the Fed has begun to slow down the pace of raising interest rates.

In this case, the price of loanable funds is the real interest rate. An expectation that interest rates will be high sometime in the next decade should mean high interest rates on long term bonds today.

Were the Governing Council to miss the coming turn in the European economy while blithely raising interest rates, they would be portrayed as drunken sailors on a rate raising binge. The roar for greater political control over Europe s central bank would be deafening and not only from France.

Raising interest rates won t have much impact on the international price of grains or fuel. Indeed, given the size of the US economy, a slowdown there might conceivably have a far bigger effect on global prices than a slowdown in any developing country, which suggests that, from a global perspective, US interest rates, not those in developing countries, should be raised.

Overvalued exchange rates, in turn, have attracted more inflows by adding to arbitrage margins created by high interest rates.

However, donor interest in the programme has steadily declined, raising concern about the programme's sustainability.

In normal times, any effort by a central bank to take short term interest rates too low for too long will boomerang. Short term market interest rates will fall, but, as investors begin to recognize the ultimate inflationary consequences of very loose monetary policy, longer term interest rates will rise.

First, the domestic interest groups that benefit from low borrowing costs have become a barrier to their liberalization. There is a common sense consensus among borrowers in China, as well as in highly indebted advanced economies that raising interest rates would undermine GDP growth, employment, and asset prices.

But three factors suggest that investors are over emphasizing the risk of a curve re pricing. First, economic developments will likely lead the Fed to exhibit caution when it comes to the process of raising interest rates.

The Paris meeting affords the ECB an opportunity to make a political statement its Declaration of Independence, so to speak by raising interest rates on French soil. Trichet already has cleared the way for this to happen.

Second, many argue that raising interest rates would trigger a flood of speculative capital from low yielding advanced economies. With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows, upward pressure on the renminbi s exchange rate would threaten competitiveness.

Australia's central bank has already been raising rates since May 2002, and Great Britain's since November 2003.

When the markets see that coming, they will drive Italy s sovereign interest rates even lower. Given Italy s very large national debt, interest payments add more than 5 of GDP to the fiscal deficit. The combination of economic recovery and lower interest rates would produce a virtuous dynamic in which falling interest rates and a rising budget surplus are mutually reinforcing.

The trend of Hong Kong dollar interest rates and US dollar interest rates will be more consistent. Everyone must be more careful to manage risks and prepared to cope with market fluctuations.

In a country with large fiscal deficits, the central bank may have to keep interest rates high to control inflation. In this scenario, budget cuts create room for interest rates to fall.

Had emerging economies resisted the temptation of excessive private sector credit growth, raising interest rates in order to stabilize currencies would not pose a severe threat to economic performance. But, unsurprisingly, they did not rather, they succumbed to the notion that unprecedentedly high rates of GDP growth were the new normal.

In theory, as the economy picks up and interest rates begin to climb, central banks will simply pay higher interest rates on their reserves, so that they can finance their holdings of long term securities and shrink them slowly. But higher interest rates also imply large capital losses for central banks asset holdings.

The gross domestic product (GDP) of Canada grew by 0.2 in July compared with the previous month, with a higher than expected growing rate, raising market expectations that the Bank of Canada will raise interest rates next month.