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Monday, July 23, 2012

Fed hints at quantitative easing 3 (again for the trillionth time) but markets still sell off!

Hey wise guys - do more of the same that didn't work the last 2 or 200 times and expect different results, yup - this ain't insanity, this is 21st century wisdom!
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Another round of quantitative easing could be right around the corner: upon concluding the latest meeting of the US Federal Reserve, some of the central bank’s top figures forecast that they may need to implement QE3.
Citing a continuously stagnant jobs report and a seemingly perpetually perturbed international economy, members of the Fed say that a third run of quantitative easing — yet another round of bond purchasing — could be in the cards for the country’s central bank. The Fed is unlikely to formally make a decision either way until there next meeting wraps up on August 1, but some members of the bank are announcing on the heels of their latest get together that the option is still on the table. Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said to the US Congress, “We are looking very carefully at the economy, trying to judge…whether or not the economy is likely to continue to make progress towards lower unemployment.” If a positive outlook didn’t appear in the cards, warned Bernanke, the bank would “obviously…have to consider additional steps.”  Read More
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