“Fed Has Aided Stocks, Not Rates or Jobs” – CNBC
“The Federal Reserve’s policy to purchase $600 billion of bonds in a program widely known as QE2 has been mostly ineffective at lowering interest rates and will do little to improve the unemployment rate, according to the exclusive CNBC Fed Survey in December. The survey of 76 economists, bond and stock traders, and analysts, found 63 percent saying the Fed’s program has been ineffective at lowering interest rates. A similar percentage believes the program will not help lower the unemployment rate.” Read more.
“Fed Has Aided Stocks, Not Rates or Jobs”
Steve Liesman
CNBC, December 22, 2010.
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