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Janet Yellen: “We are not going to raise rates if we think it is going to tip the economy into a recession.”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
We are not going to raise rates if we think it is going to tip the economy into a recession.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen reassures that rate hikes won't occur if they risk recession.

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