Interest Rates in the Economy

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The Federal Reverse Board is a group of seven highly intelligent individuals, and essentially decides the interest rates for the people of the United States. "The most important job for them to do is to set the federal funds rate, which is what banks pay each other for overnight loans" (FunAdvice)...
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The Federal Reserve Board actually changes what we call the federal funds rate. The federal funds rate is simply a target rate of what the interest rate should be, not actually the interest rate itself. However, the rate the Board does set is very close to the interest rate, or the actual rate consumers pay (Merriman 1)...
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