Economics
The Fed Doesn't Want Negative Interest Rates Even Though Trump Does
- President urges Fed to lower borrowing costs to zero or less
- Negative rates seen hurting banks and possibly breaking law
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues are loath to follow Europe and Japan into negative interest rate territory -- no matter what President Donald Trump might want or how bad the U.S. economy might get.