Interest Rates Are Too Low! (Huffington Post)

In the wake of crumbling currencies and worldwide recession, should we return to the gold standard? Not quite, says Lyric Hughes Hale, but there must be a newer, better way to build convergence into the global financial system. Her solution: create a target interest rate of 2% and ask all other countries to do the same, then implement gradual tightening. If another crisis hits, she concludes, at least we'll have something familiar to work with.