VIKEN Z KOKOZIAN: Bernanke’s Interest-Rate Timeframe Draws Most Negative Votes in 18 Years ---------------------------------Aug-10-2011--

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Bernanke’s Interest-Rate Timeframe Draws Most Negative Votes in 18 Years ---------------------------------Aug-10-2011--

Bernanke’s Interest-Rate Timeframe Draws Most Negative Votes in 18 Years---------

Aug-10-2011--Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s plan to hold interest rates near zero through at least mid-2013 provoked the most opposition among voting policy makers in 18 years as central bank consensus frayed. The Fed chief achieved unanimous support on the Federal Open Market Committee in 2008 when he lowered interest rates to near zero, and in 2009 when he launched $1.73 trillion in bond purchases. Last year, his plan to buy another $600 billion in assets drew one dissent. Yesterday, three policy makers dissented from the decision to apply a specific date to the Fed’s low rate pledge for the first time.

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