Tapering, a New Word in the Economic Jargon Is the Fed Siginiling Higher Interest Rates Is There Fear of Inflation
The FED has been purchasing $85 billion of debt securities every month, Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. They had said that this would continue until the rate of unemployment dropped, with a target of 6.5%. Although there has been some slight improvement in the employment situation the current unemployment rate of 7.5% is still a long way from the target. The economy has not been strong. First quarter GDP showed an increase of 2.5%. That was below the 3.5% expected by...
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