Worried about a slowing economy, Fed officials want to maintain a key stimulus program

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The controversial initiative, known as quantitative easing, involved the Fed purchasing trillions of dollars of bonds and mortgage-backed securities from 2008-14, which helped push down interest rates to encourage spending and investing over saving.

 

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So in another words, spuring an artificial economic boom?

Is there an automobile market bubble?

QE artificially inflated asset prices, particularly stocks and commercial real estate. Unwinding QE is very tricky.

You missed the most significant point. Where did the money come fr to buy such? They printed it !

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