Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said the Federal Reserve must keep interest rates low to sustain the U.S. housing recovery.
“We have the beginnings of a housing recovery, it’s just starting to kick in,” the Princeton University economics professor said. “If the Fed were to raise rates, they would kill that.”
Fed’s low rates are key to housing recovery
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