Почему
Ставки ФРС снижены, federal fund rate достигла минимума за последние 40 лет (= 1,25%).
Почему это откладывает восстановление экономики США?
Ответы - в интервью Фрэнка Шостака
update. Чрезвычайно полезны простые вопросы к Гринспену. Пример.

[Шостак] If you look at industrial production, we see that the cyclical component—which is the underlying movement in relation to the long–term trend—has been below the trend for 18 months.

This raises a question. If you have had such aggressive lowering of interest rates for so long, from 6 percent to less than 2 percent, and nothing has happened to industrial production, that immediately raises the possibility that we are dealing with something more serious than people realize.