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Golespi: Avoiding Interest for America Debt Reduction
The article addressed the importance of the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve in setting monetary policy, especially amid calls to lower interest rates to facilitate the financing of public debt and reduce the deficit, despite the risks of increasing inflation and higher borrowing costs. Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans emphasized that lowering interest rates to finance debt threatens the central bank's independence and that the decision to set interest rates should remain based on economic indicators rather than political or financial factors. While President Trump has called for reducing interest rates to lower levels, the Federal Reserve faces pressure to make borrowing costs cheaper, even as the current high interest rates increase debt service costs and highlight the size of the fiscal deficit, which approaches 6% of the annual gross domestic product, with primary responsibility for fiscal policies left to the elected authorities.
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