Q/E about to end

[mrsleeve]

Official announcement of the end of the FED debt buying comes on 10/29???? This has to be just a coincidence right???? --------- insert tinfoil here---------- This announcement has been in circulation in the less "main stream" news outlets for a while now though.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-ends-qe3-and-sends-upbeat-signals-on-economy-2014-10-29

Discuss

Never was a fan of to big to fail or bail outs in the 1st place, so glad this is coming to an end, too bad it has inflated things, and done nothing but push back a true market correction and its jut going to be that much harder now..............

[Dozyproductions]

If I understand the fed correctly, buying debt is their entire purpose and is the very basis of the US dollar. By 'expanding the monetary base' and using that magic money to buy US bonds; money is nothing but debt.

Nothing more than status quo.

[mrsleeve]

No the fed has never bought debt from the us govt untill Q/E3. WE the consumer, be it US citizens, Business entities, other nations govts or whom ever bought the debt in the form of US treasuries.

Yes the fed prints money from nothing, and there is interest charged to the Federal govt on each of those dollars. There are several factors that play into the value of each dollar, and much of that ties to the worlds confidence in it, as well as the supply. With the FED inflating the supply by buying the debt directly, that is the definition of printing from nothing. When there is a middle man in the way like you or me or china they are paying currency to buy the debt and loan our govt money that capital. All this has done is inflate the money supply have you noticed the price of shit lately going up, thats a direct result of this easing of the money supply well that and the ability to barrow money for NOTHING.

[Morrison]

Let's see - in 2009 we actually had deflation. Then in 2010, rates hovered between 1.05 and 2.63. In 2011, rates were between 1.63 and 3.87, monthly. In 2012: between 1.41 and 2.93. In 2013: between .96 and 1.96. In 2014 they've been below 2.13 all year so far.

In 1980, rates were 13~14 pct. Even in 1987, Reagan's best year for inflation rates, it was no better than any of the last 6 years.

[mrsleeve]

Yes but when did they remove food and housing costs form the general matrix??? have you been to the grocery store lately or you you let your wife do all the shopping??

Oh and your going to try and blame the high rates on the Regan admin............... You know why the peanut farmer dances a jig every morning when he turns on the news right??? He no longer going to be remembered as the worst POTUS in modern times