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Fed could start tapering QE3 this summer: Williams
Marketwatch ^ | April 3, 2013, 3:42 p.m. EDT | Greg Robb, MarketWatch

Posted on 04/03/2013 1:18:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Federal Reserve could start tapering its $85 billion-a-month asset-purchase plan by the summer, said John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: federalreserve; qe3

1 posted on 04/03/2013 1:18:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

35 billion dollar asset-purchase plan————give me a break

What is the asset they are purchasing?
Bonds that aren’t worth any more than the money they are using to purchase them.

Printing Confederate money—worthless.


2 posted on 04/03/2013 1:29:39 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They won’t.


3 posted on 04/03/2013 2:34:53 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81

They can’t.


4 posted on 04/03/2013 2:45:47 PM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The stock market and the economy will crash if they do and the house of cards will come crashing down. Cyprus will look pretty compared to what will happen here with a communist as president.


5 posted on 04/03/2013 2:59:50 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Leveling the playing field for a Progressive is dragging everyone down to their level.)
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To: enduserindy

Concur. They can’t so they won’t—ever. We crossed the Rubicon back in 2008.


6 posted on 04/03/2013 4:35:42 PM PDT by rbg81
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