"It seems interest rates lower during recessions. Right now we are already low and are raising which seems to be a different pattern. Is lowering interest rates

"It seems interest rates lower during recessions. Right now we are already low and are raising which seems to be a different pattern. Is lowering interest rates a method to overcome a recession?" It used to be that you could lower interest rates and run up deficits during bad times with the intent of going back to normal when things are better. We now have kept low interest rates and record deficits during good times. When things blow up (as they always do after a while) there is almost nothing left that can be done to counter a recession. In the past going to war helped....