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CNN Money | The taper is coming. Get over it
The Federal Reserve will wrap up a two-day policymaking meeting this Wednesday, and Fed watchers are obsessing over the timing of when the central bank may begin to slow its bond-buying program.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Bloomberg | Fed Leader Doubt Erodes Low-Rate Message as QE Taper Looms
Federal Reserve officials will gather in their Washington board room this week to decide on policies that will unfold over the next two to three years without knowing who will lead the institution during that time.
Real Clear Markets | The Economy Will Survive Normal Interest Rates Just Fine
On November 25, 2008 the Federal Reserve Board announced the beginning of quantitative easing, what we now know as QE1. The next day, the rate on ten year U.S. government bonds dropped below 3 percent for the first time since the 1950s.
Fortune | By every measure, the big banks are bigger
One third of all business loans this year were made by Bank of America. Wells Fargo funds nearly a quarter of all mortgage loans. And held in the vaults of JPMorgan Chase is $1.3 trillion, which is 12% of our collective cash, including the payrolls of many thousands of companies, or enough to buy 47,636,496,885 of these NFL branded toaster ovens. Thanks for your business!
