“Sweden’s economy, which it oversees, grew three times faster than the euro zone’s in 2010 and dodged Europe’s double-dip recession in 2012-13. The Riksbank felt confident enough in recovery to start raising interest rates in 2010. The Riksbank worried that rising household borrowing and soaring house prices could lead to trouble down the road. It therefore opted to ‘lean against the wind’, in central bankers’ parlance, and deflate the credit boom before it burst catastrophically.  It seems instead to have taken the air out of everything but exuberant markets. Unemployment in Sweden has held steady, while Swedish private-sector debt as a share of GDP is higher now than it was in 2010.”

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21606895-interest-rates-are-back-crisis-lows-sub-zero-conditions

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