By                    Vance Cariaga

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In an interview with Bloomberg News on Sunday after returning from the meeting, Yellen said President Joe Biden should press forward with his $4 trillion spending plan to boost the economy despite fears that the plan will increase inflation and lead to higher interest rates.

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Yellen said a slightly higher interest rate environment “would actually be a plus” for both society and the Federal Reserve. She also said she would “not give up” on the administration’s spending packages, adding that they are “not meant as stimulus” but as “investments to address long-standing needs of our economy.”

As Bloomberg reported, the debate surrounding inflation has intensified between Yellen and others who say rising prices are the result of temporary outliers created by the COVID-19 pandemic and critics who argue that trillions in government stimulus could create a long-term spike in prices.

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“We’ve been fighting inflation that’s too low and interest rates that are too low now for a decade,” Yellen told Bloomberg, adding that the administration wants to return to a normal interest rate environment.

The deal is comprised of two “pillars” — one that would make companies pay a percentage of their profits in markets where they have a small corporate presence but register high sales, and another that would establish a global minimum corporation tax.

Richard Murphy, a visiting professor of accounting at the Sheffield University management school, told The Guardian that the 10% profit threshold is “inappropriate” because different companies have different business models. He also said that current approaches to reporting profits in different countries are “easily gamed.”

“It will include large profitable firms and those firms, I believe, will qualify by almost any definition,” she said.

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