The Federal Reserve is about to join the club of central banks that has embarked on a course of normalizing short-term interest rates, this article says ahead of the Fed's much awaited FOMC decision. And with the ECB meeting Thursday it describes the ultimate central bank Catch-22. The ECB asserts its independence and raises rates, only to find it sacrifices that same independence in the process, it says.

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