Interview between Charles Porter from SGM Foreign Exchange and Dr. Waltraud Schelkle, professor at the London School of Economics: The Fed Interest Rate Debate.
In this video we discuss whether the European Sovereign Crisis, the Financial Crisis, and the Great Recession are over.
Dr. Schelkle argues that an interest rate hike is overdue.
Find the Transcript of our interview here:
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