The Feds have kept interest rates really low in hopes to pump money and stimulate the economy. They hoped people would borrow money cheaply and go on a spending spree. Historical low mortgage rates and auto loans do sound attractive but that's not enough to boost consumption. Instead cheap borrowing only created asset bubbles. If consumption needed a boost, wouldn't a tax cut be a better approach since every individual tax payer would have more disposable income than they did before and could lead to more spending?
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Is Fiscal Policy a lot better than the Feds monetary policies?