counterproductive
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“Fed leaders would be well served to skip opportunities to share their latest musings. The swivel-chair problem, rhetorically waxing and waning with the latest data release, is common and counterproductive,” Warsh said last April.
From MarketWatch
Musalem also argued that an attempt to help the labor market by easing the short-term interest rates controlled by the Fed could be counterproductive.
Yet this type of leadership can also be counterproductive.
From BBC
Others are livid, arguing it is absurd and counterproductive to spike the prospects of someone they see as one of the party's brightest lights.
From BBC
Lower rates could also be counterproductive unless there is a corresponding increase in the housing supply, as cheaper borrowing costs would be capitalized into higher home prices.
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