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Janet Yellen's Goldilocks rate rise: lining up the politics and economics

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imageJanet Yellen's political mortgage has fallen due, but the economics makes sense too.Joshua Roberts/Reuters

On Thursday morning, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce its first increase in US interest rates for nearly a decade.

Since the onset of the global financial crisis, the bellwether “federal funds rate” has been kept at rock...

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