Posted on 19/03/08
Fed's dilemma: credit or inflation
WASHINGTON -- 75 basis pointsU.S. Federal Reserve Board chief Ben Bernanke is confronting his own moral hazard as he struggles to contain a virulent credit crunch stalking financial markets.The lower interest rates that investors and lenders desperately crave risk reigniting the very speculative excess that triggered the crisis in the first place.
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