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U.S. Treasury sells bonds because government must service our debt or pay for decision making process by us and our Representatives we elect. Fed Reserve buys a boatload of bonds that they hold until maturity because of the huge amounts. Guess what, right now the Feds need to unload/liquidate $trillions (They bought during the 2008 "recovery") which cause interest rate hikes. This is a government created problem. The Federal Reserve is a middle-man, nothing more.

If we elected fiscal sane politicians this would not happen. Even those who claim to be fiscal "conservative" prop up this system.

In before the "Your a mouth piece for the Fed". I believe the temptation of the Federal Reserve should be eradicated because obviously "we the people" can't be trusted to elect fiscally sound politicians.

Keep in mind this train of bond buying was rolling for years after the recovery.