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Fed Raises Rates for First Time in 2016, Anticipates 3 Increases in 2017 Central bank will nudge up the federal-funds rate by a quarter percentage point to between 0.50% and 0.75% Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen explains the decision to raise the federal-funds rate by a quarter percentage point, and the expectation for further increases in 2017.
As it turned out, the Fed had to let rates go as high as 19 percent in 1981 in order to get inflation under control. Interest rates were high because the market was factoring high expected inflation into interest rates. If you lend money at 10 percent but the inflation rate is 12 percent, you're actually losing money!eople often talk about the Fed setting this interest rate, but that's not quite accurate. What happens is that the Fed announces a target for the federal funds rate and then uses its ability to create or destroy money to reach its target. There are a couple of ways the Fed can do this.