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by efficax 358 days ago
you raise interest rates to slow economic activity, you lower them to speed it up. yes, if interest rates are raised, that means employment is too high, basically, and they want to lower it.
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> yes, if interest rates are raised, that means employment is too high, basically, and they want to lower it.

Not directly. The Bank of England targets inflation, not employment.