Fifthly, from the perspective of policy-making, the primary purpose of conducting a survey is to produce data that will help answer important policy questions. Once collected, the data must be so collated, organised, summarised, and described as to be eminently useful for policy purposes.
Although a long period of low rates could encourage excessive risk-taking, and continued close attention to such developments is certainly warranted, to this point we do not see the potential costs of the increased risk-taking in some financial markets as outweighing the benefits of promoting a stronger economic recovery and more-rapid job creation.5 Another aspect of the Federal Reserve’s policies that has been discussed is their implications for the federal budget.