> The whole point of high interest rates is to get your economy unaddicted to cheap money and force economic efficiency.
No, the point of high interest rates is to slow inflation; its part of the Fed’s thermostatic response to changes in the employment and inflation landscape.
It’s not an swift radical ideological change from the same Fed board with largely the same members that also implemented low rates not long ago. Its changed external conditions leading to the same kind of response the Fed tends to make to the same kind of condition changes historically.
No, the point of high interest rates is to slow inflation; its part of the Fed’s thermostatic response to changes in the employment and inflation landscape.
It’s not an swift radical ideological change from the same Fed board with largely the same members that also implemented low rates not long ago. Its changed external conditions leading to the same kind of response the Fed tends to make to the same kind of condition changes historically.