My theory is that the fed will shut off the QE as soon as Trump takes office and the economy will hit a wall. This does two things. It allows the establishment an escape hatch from the correction that has to come.
And it lets them punish the electorate for going outside the normal party structure.
I think Trump knows this.
He has already dropped hints about firing Janet Yellen.
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I thought QE was already shut off as allegedly having completed its mission of rebooting the economy, which has allegedly fully recovered (as allegedly demonstrated by the normal unemployment rate), and the fed is allegedly raising interest rates back to normal in a very gradual, conservative manner as final proof that the recovery is complete.
If so, then Obama, through Yellen and the fed (or vice versa), is reluctant to return to QE since it would constitute a tacit admission that his economic policies have done no good (ie, that Obama’s economic policies have failed).
If so, either Obama/Yellen seemingly have to restart QE, especially considering that the election is coming up and the Democrats want to be able to point to the economy as a reason for continuing the Democratic hold over the presidency via Clinton.
Maybe the FBI is waiting for a big dip in the economy to let the boom fall on Hillary. If so, then Obama will have his hands full fighting the economic bad news, and pardoning Hillary on political grounds under such circumstances would have a hollow ring to it.