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The Fed and Lowering Long-Term Interest Rates

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Liz Stinson

How does the Fed lower long-term interest rates? The Federal Reserve owns about $1.7T in US treasury securities (e.g. bonds issued by the federal government), which is about a trillion more than they owned before the quantitative easings of 2008 and 2010. … Continue reading →

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