XaiUx As Predicted, Bernanke Launches QE3 ... Which Will Destroy the Economy
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This Is Not Going to End Well …

We predicted last week that Bernanke would launch QE3 this week.

Today, the Fed announced that will buy $40 billion dollars of mortgages per monthindefinitely.

This is in addition to numerous other easing programs. As CNBC notes:

In addition, the Fed said it will continue its program of selling shorter-dated government debt and buying longer-term securities, a mechanism known as Operation Twist. It also will continue its policy of reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and mortgage-backed securities back into mortgages.

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“These actions, which together will increase the Committee’s holdings of longer-term securities by about $85 billion each month through the end of the year, should put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates, support mortgage markets, and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative,” the Fed statement said.

And the Fed isn’t stopping there:

“There’s strong hints that they’ll do Treasurys next,” Joe LaVorgna, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Advisors, said in a phone interview from London. “They’re pulling out all the stops to try to get this economy to gain some traction and, most important, to get unemployment down.”

This sounds nice … except that the experts say that quantitative easing destroys the economy and – despite the initial optics of it – hurts the little guy.

As we said in 2008: welcome to .

P.S. Yes … if you’re a homeowner, you will probably want to re-fi.

As Predicted, Bernanke Launches QE3 … Which Will Destroy the Economy was originally published on Washington’s Blog

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