Yellen sides with Milton Friedman against colleagues

Published September 21, 2016 9:36pm ET



Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen sided with the late Milton Friedman and against her colleagues Wednesday in one of the major debates within the central bank as it weighs when to raise interest rates.

On the question of whether the Fed should raise rates if it wants to prevent inflation from rising out of control, even if that inflation is not yet apparent in the data, Yellen said at a press conference that it should.

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