Misra points out that it peaked in November, a month after QE3 was launched. At the time, fourth qu…

In theory, a permanent increase in money supply results in a proportional increase in all money pri…

From the trenches, several other Fed managers also began voicing the concern that QE wasn't working…

"While recent mortgage rate increases might serve to restrain housing activity, several participant…

An expansion of the asset purchase programme remained one means of injecting stimulus, but the Comm…

"Flows continue to be bullish biased in the latest release of positioning data," he says. "Bond fun…

If the Fed is close to a September taper, then we would expect some discussion of operational detai…

"The net consequence of the neither hot-nor-cold report is that the Fed really will be data depende…

Some investors are concerned that, when the Fed starts selling bonds instead of buying them, intere…

"At this meeting, a few participants expressed concern that conditions in certain U.S. financial ma…

October is likely to be right in the middle of the debt ceiling fight. In general, people think the…

In countries that do not engage in quantitative easing, meanwhile, the decline in long-term rates i…

This is also apparent in corporate free cash flow, or internal funds available for investment. The …

Minutes from their December policy meeting showed that "several" top officials expected to slow or …

"The FOMC will likely continue to taper the pace of its asset purchases by a further $10 billion - …

Quantitative Easing (QE) is a monetary policy where the central bank buys long-term securities in t…

"Instead of falling back to 2.0% or lower following the Fed's decision to delay tapering, the 10-ye…

For all of the talk of rising government bond yields and predictions for when the Federal Reserve w…

When taper talk ramped up in May and June and markets swung on the news, they weren't reacting sole…

The Fed buys a lot of long-term US Treasuries and Mortgage-backed securities to cut borrowing costs…