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Monday, November 10, 2014

Monetary

News                                                                                                                             
Market Watch | With nine-month head start, Fed still may get jobless forecast wrong
Federal Reserve officials have acknowledged they have been caught by surprise by the downward trajectory of the unemployment rate.
Real Clear Markets | Did the Fed's QE Actually Help?
The Federal Reserve has ended its roughly $3.7 trillion program of bond buying, leaving in its wake a host of hard questions. Did it strengthen the economic recovery? If so, by how much? What are the long-run effects? Should it be used again? We don't have good answers.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Market Watch | The Fed and other central banks have to handle money better
Global economic policies aren’t effective enough, either to restore growth or bring inflation to a level needed to address the world’s debt problems.