Is Yellen Starting a Civil War at the Fed?

by Ryan McMaken
Mises.org

Janet Yellen continues to be an inflation dove, and last week, she suggested that the FOMC keep interest rates low, even if unemployment continues to fall and official inflation rates increase.

After more than seven years of rates below 1 percent, many members of the FOMC has started to worry about just how they’re going to re-establish any credibility. It’s already become abundantly clear that the Fed is too frightened to do much of anything other than sit around and hope that the economy will somehow move out of its multi-year cycle of low expectations and mediocre growth.

CNBC reports:

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