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Aazadan t1_jbo4dz8 wrote

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Raising rates is the correct move. It needed to happen a decade ago. This is still fixing issues resulting from the 2008 crash and an economy that has gotten too used to being subsidized by 0% interest rates.

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PLEASE_PUNCH_MY_FACE t1_jbqutf0 wrote

I don't know why you're being downvoted. Capital is too expensive because credit is too cheap.

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Aazadan t1_jbv4gt8 wrote

It’s an understandable reaction. There’s a lot of people out there that are upset the economy is cooling due to increased rates. If you walk people through the logic of why they were lowered, and the downsides of long term low rates, they’ll agree they should go up, but perhaps to not what they were before. But also ignore that pre 2008 rates were also historic lows for the time.

While it’s certainly not without its downsides, rates needed to go up, and I’m glad it’s finally happening. The original plans which should have started several years ago would have been .25% per quarter for years. But no one wanted to pay that political price.

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