The FED is not trying to push unemployment, they just accept it as a cost to curb inflation which is always enemy number one. Interests rates and unemployment a

The FED is not trying to push unemployment, they just accept it as a cost to curb inflation which is always enemy number one. Interests rates and unemployment are correlated; you make borrowing more expensive, people invest less and become more conservative, often by trimming. EDIT: Fixed correlation sign.