Today marks the last day of the Fed's financial asset purchase program known as QE2. What impact did QE2 have? What should we expect to happen now that it is ending? Traditionally, the Federal Reserve ...

QE2 didn't jolt the U.S. economy out of its slumber, spawn millions of jobs and cause official Washington to break out in a group hug. So what else is new? Don't get me wrong -- there's reason to ...

U.S. investors have been so preoccupied with recent action by the U.S. central bank that we have neglected to recognize the impact such actions could have on the global economy, and perhaps more ...

The Federal Reserve is wrapping up its $600 billion QE2 treasury bond-buying program this month. Did it work or was it a waste of money? Some media analysis of QE2's effectiveness is shoddy. Based on ...

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen ...

Quantitative easing—which ends Thursday—effectively reached some of its goals and badly missed at others, but the unprecedented government intervention program’s final legacy is far from being written ...

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