The overnight rate now stands at 2.0%, down from 5.25% when the easy-money spree began.
The easy-money policy of the Fed explains why inflation-linked bonds may not be a bad deal for investors.
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Stock valuations will crumble once the Fed abandons its easy-money policy, they say.
Gold in recent weeks has sold off as investors have bet the Fed would scale back its easy-money policies soon.
The astonishing housing bubble could not have happened without the Federal Reserve's easy-money policy, which got under way in late 2003.
The Fed has said that it would need to see a sustained recovery before making any adjustments to its easy-money policies.
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"As long as inflationary expectations remain firmly anchored, " it said, "fears about high inflation" shouldn't prevent central banks from pursuing their easy-money policies.
Right now the independent film world is still digesting a glut of movies financed during the easy-money era of the past three years.
Also, the FOMC minutes revealed that in the January policy meeting, officials had mixed opinions on how long the easy-money policies should continue.
The Fed's easy-money policies have juiced entire financial markets to record highs, even as the economy remains weak and jobs are still hard to find.
Or was the old-fashioned subscription model always a snare and a delusion, an easy-money honeypot that seduced growth-happy companies into losing sight of their artistic missions?
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Political forces may be forcing the Bank of Japan to loosen dramatically in order to bring down the yen in line with the other big easy-money regimes.
It seems that the US is at odds with G-8 leaders in Toronto with regard to extending the failed easy-money policy rather than taking the medicine of austerity.
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If the Federal Reserve starts to back off its easy-money throttle that would be at least initially a bearish development for raw commodity markets, including the precious metals.
The net effect will be to jerk the easy-money football away from Airline Charlie and produce a painful collision between his backside and the hard ground of economic reality.
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Many wonder if the U.S. Federal Reserve will back off on monetary easing when other major central banks of the world are stepping harder on their easy-money accelerators to reinvigorate their economies.
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The yellow metal was immediately boosted in the aftermath of a surprisingly weak U.S. employment report, which suggests the Federal Reserve will keep its foot on the easy-money accelerator for some time to come.
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Those are the significant cuts in government spending and increases in taxes needed to bring the budget deficits under control, both already slated to begin this year, and for the Fed to unload all the bonds and other assets it piled onto its balance sheet in its stimulus efforts, and get its easy-money policies reversed to normalcy.
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After all, our huge long-term corporate losses stem not from easy money or mark-to-market rules but largely from the incorrect short-term incentives that compensation plans give to key executives.
Perhaps in an era of 12 percent average returns, their employees were happy with the easy pretax money, two-point lag or no.
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Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.
The least significant part of the policy is the promise of easy money through mid-2015, which can be rescinded if the opportunity arises, and the confirmation of operation twist through the end of the year.
If it's this hard to get more than a handful of Republican votes on what is relatively easy -- spending tons of money and cutting people's taxes -- when you look down the road at health care and entitlement reform and energy reform, those are really tough choices.
It merely repudiates his assuredly well-meant but, in practice, stagnation-inducing easy money model.
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The case involved an investment that was pitched to naive investors to get them into Golden Gate REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) for some easy money during the 2003-2004 housing boom.
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To meet that 2% inflation target, Prime Minister Abe has put forth an aggressive ultra-easy monetary policy which will pump more money into the economy and also weaken the yen.
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