Oil and Food Prices Keep Rising: Should the Fed Raise Interest Rates

Unrest across the Middle East is pushing high oil prices higher, and that’s having a cascade effect that feels a lot like inflation as these higher prices bubble through the economy. Still, that’s not enough reason for the Fed to battle inflation by starting to raise rates.

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Oil and Food Prices Keep Rising, but It’s Not Time for the Fed To Act originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:00:00.

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