> If you asked the person in the street, “Why are interest rates so low?”, he or she would likely answer that the Fed is keeping them low. That’s true only in a

> If you asked the person in the street, “Why are interest rates so low?”, he or she would likely answer that the Fed is keeping them low. That’s true only in a very narrow sense... http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30-why-interest-rates-so-low http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30...