What are the issues that might be raised and included in the report:
• The project may discuss the implications of the observed levels of interest rates from the viewpoint of the central bank economists, and/ or from the viewpoint of the investors. • Do the low levels of interest rates ensure encourage business borrowings and thus may hasten economic growth? • According to many of the economists and economic scholars in the well know financial magazine “The Economist” are inquiring “After several years of nearly-zero interest rates in USA and elsewhere in the world, but only modest increases in investment incurred!”. Then, what else can policy makers are supposed to do to enhance the growth in the economy? • -Some well-known practitioners including Bill Gross (founder of PIMCO) are blaming the flat yield curve to the observed low level of investment and economic growth. What are the implications of the yield curve for investors? • Are low interest rates really to blame for our current economic malaise? Should the Fed intervene in Treasury markets to steepen the yield curve and widen the gap between short- and long-term rates? What are the issues that might be raised and included in the report:
• The project may discuss the implications of the observed levels of interest rates from the viewpoint of the central bank economists, and/ or from the viewpoint of the investors. • Do the low levels of interest rates ensure encourage business borrowings and thus may hasten economic growth? • According to many of the economists and economic scholars in the well know financial magazine “The Economist” are inquiring “After several years of nearly-zero interest rates in USA and elsewhere in the world, but only modest increases in investment incurred!”. Then, what else can policy makers are supposed to do to enhance the growth in the economy? • -Some well-known practitioners including Bill Gross (founder of PIMCO) are blaming the flat yield curve to the observed low level of investment and economic growth. What are the implications of the yield curve for investors? • Are low interest rates really to blame for our current economic malaise? Should the Fed intervene in Treasury markets to steepen the yield curve and widen the gag between short- and long-term rates?