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The Fed Is Like a Blind Man in the Urinal
The IMF said that interest rate changes have their peak effect on growth in about one year. It took inflation three years to follow the manageable levels when Volcker pushed rates 20%. "I think it's probably only going to get worse where people on the Fed know that they can be a celebrity," he says.