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The fed has been keeping the prices of these artificially inflated through QE. They've stopped buying (they aren't selling yet, but simply letting securities ma
by datalopers 4y ago
The fed has been keeping the prices of these artificially inflated through QE. They've stopped buying (they aren't selling yet, but simply letting securities mature) and the massive reduce in demand leads to a decline in prices of the corresponding assets.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The fed has been keeping the prices of these artificially inflated through QE No, as the word “continue” implies, it has been, and plans to go on with, keeping the prices artificially low via Quantitative Tightening. QE ended a while back.
- datalopers 4y agoQE4 ended in March '22. I'm not sure the particular nuances of the timeline matter to the person asking the question.