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How the Fed joined the fight against climate change

  • Written by Carolin Schellhorn, Assistant Professor of Finance, St. Joseph's University
imageThe Fed's low-interest rate garden.Money shoots via www.shutterstock.com

The Federal Reserve’s policy committee is expected to lift its target interest rate a quarter-point – to a range of 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent – at its final meeting of 2016.

The main reasons the Fed has kept rates near zero for eight years have been to...

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