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Quantitative easing

Paddy Hirsch Dec 22, 2008
Whiteboard Quantitative easing Marketplace

Now the Federal Reserve has effectively cut the target lending rate to zero, it only has one more weapon in its arsenal. Quantitative easing. Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains what this “nuclear option” it is, and what the Fed hopes it’ll do.

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