Bernanke’s Quantitative Easing: Wrong Medicine for an Ailing Economy Friday, 14 September 2012 08:40 J.D. Foster The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee announced today that it would pursue $40 billion in additional monthly stimulus in the form of quantitative easing. Meanwhile, it will maintain its previous program of exchanging about $45 billion monthly in short-for-long-term securities. Quantitative easing, or QE, is purchasing long-dated government bonds and similar debt instruments. » If you like this article, please donate to Right Side News Daily The policy is certainly well motivated: The U.S. economy is barely growing, as the latest jobs report underscored,...