Rogoff Sees Fed Hiking Rates Up to 5% as Things Are ‘Out of Control’
- Harvard professor, ex-IMF chief economist speaks on Bloomberg
- Sees risks of perfect storm of U.S., EU, China recessions
The Federal Reserve will have to raise interest rates to as much as 5% to ease the hottest inflation in four decades just as the world faces a “perfect storm” of potential recessions in the U.S., European Union and China, former International Monetary Fund chief economist Kenneth Rogoff said.
The idea that increasing rates to just 2% or 3% will slow price growth “is really unlikely -- I think they’re going to have to raise interest rates to 4% or 5% to bring inflation down to 2.5% or 3%,” the Harvard University professor said in an interview on Bloomberg Television on Tuesday with Lisa Abramowicz, Jonathan Ferro and Tom Keene. “There’s just a lot of uncertainty. I’m not going to say I know exactly what needs to be done. But it’s clear that things are way out of control.”