FOR the first time since May 2000, the Federal Reserve has recently raised the Fed-funds rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%, marking the beginning of the end of the cheap money era.
For the past few years, in an attempt to support a flagging global economy, monetary policy world-wide has been at its loosest in decades, as indicated by historically low interest rates.
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