The Federal Reserve stopped increasing its stockpile of bonds in 2014, a policy called quantitative easing, and

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The Federal Reserve stopped increasing its stockpile of bonds in 2014, a policy called quantitative easing, and by 2018 it had started to let around $40 billion worth of bonds mature without replacing them. This policy, as can be inferred, is called quantitative tightening. Why do you think the Fed has started to engage in quantitative tightening? What impacts would it have on the market for stocks and bonds?

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Principles Of Macroeconomics

ISBN: 9781292303826

13th Global Edition

Authors: Karl E. Case,Ray C. Fair , Sharon E. Oster

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