Kathleen Hays
Business & Economics
Fed Was `Premature’ to Cut Rates, Former Central Banker Says
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve was too quick to reduce interest rates today in an emergency move after global stock markets tumbled, a former Fed president said. “It strikes me as very premature,” Lee Hoskins, former president of the Cleveland Fed, said in an interview after the central …
Kathleen Hays
January 22, 2008
Fed Was `Premature’ to Cut Rates, Former Central Banker Says
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve was too quick to reduce interest rates today in an emergency move after global stock markets tumbled, a former Fed president said. “It strikes me as very premature,” Lee Hoskins, former president of the Cleveland Fed, said in an interview after the central …