Grassley Comment on the Interest Rate Cut

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Grassley Comment on the Interest Rate Cut

The following press release was published by the United States Committee on Finance Ranking Member’s News on April 18, 2001. It is reproduced in full below.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today made the followingcomment on the Federal Reserve’s surprise cut of short-term interest rates.

“I’m glad to see the Fed demonstrate greater sensitivity to the economic slowdown.Aggressive action is needed to keep the economy above water. It’s a lot easier to prevent a drowningthan it is to rescue the drowned. And lower interest rates can do more in the way of an immediateeconomic stimulus than anything Congress can do. I hope that’s what the Fed had in mind with thisrate cut."

Source: Ranking Member’s News

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