<p>When people find jobs, they start receiving salaries and their consumption increases. Increased demand for goods and services leads to increase in prices, or inflation. Fed is expected to respond with a rate hike to keep inflation in check. </p>

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2015-12-13T12:36:24.783Z
When people find jobs, it means that more output is produced. Since more output is available, why should increased demand lead to higher prices? (It still may, in a real-world economy, but I just wanted to point out that perhaps your answer should be more elaborate).
Alecos Papadopoulos
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2015-12-13T16:23:38.410Z
But would that simply not mean we are immediately back to square as one of the main measures of economic stimulation is consumer spending?
Sharline Sivanathan
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2015-12-13T20:55:07.590Z
In addition, as aggregate demand increases, investment increases and hence money demand increases. The government adopts a contractionary monetary policy.
london
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2015-12-13T11:51:24.060Z
Arthur Tarasov
<p>For example since the August job report came out, which showed hundreds of thousands ob jobs created. This will inevitable lead to the Fed to increase interest rates, but what is the motive behind doing this? </p>

<p>Would this not simply lead to a decreased shift in consumption and be an attempt at stagnating the economy?</p>

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Increase in the number of jobs in an economy: Central Bank raises interest rates?
Sharline Sivanathan
# Increase in the number of jobs in an economy: Central Bank raises interest rates?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-13)

For example since the August job report came out, which showed hundreds of thousands ob jobs created. This will inevitable lead to the Fed to increase interest rates, but what is the motive behind doing this?

Would this not simply lead to a decreased shift in consumption and be an attempt at stagnating the economy?

**Tags:** macroeconomics, monetary-policy

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-12-13. Score: 1

When people find jobs, they start receiving salaries and their consumption increases. Increased demand for goods and services leads to increase in prices, or inflation. Fed is expected to respond with a rate hike to keep inflation in check.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: When people find jobs, it means that more output is produced. Since more output is available, why should increased demand lead to higher prices? (It still may, in a real-world economy, but I just wanted to point out that perhaps your answer should be more elaborate).  
> **username_0**: But would that simply not mean we are immediately back to square as one of the main measures of economic stimulation is consumer spending?  
> **username_3**: In addition, as aggregate demand increases, investment increases and hence money demand increases. The government adopts a contractionary monetary policy.  

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