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The Fed Won’t Rescue The Housing Market | Danielle DiMartino Booth

Forward Guidance

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Is the Bernanke Doctrine Falling Apart?

When Bernanke first launched QE was, oh, this is something we're going to do extra because zero interest rates is not enough and we can't go negative. He brought together a few of his chief lieutenants at the 2007 Jackson Hole in violation of the Federal Reserve Act. And what they determined was that the Fed funds rate would have to go to zero as a prerequisite to launching large scale asset purchases. Yet here we are today with $750 billion a month of global quantitative tightening rates rising. I dare say they should have held off on that Nobel thing.

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