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[quote=Anonymous]Continuing the lecture, the QE in his post refers to the Fed's quantitative easing program. Basically, the Fed has been buying a whole lot of financial instruments. This increase in demand keeps their prices up. The Fed now has a giant balance sheet that it needs to unwind (sell off, slowly). This is called tapering. At present, the Fed is still buying assets each month, just less than it had been doing. This is tapering. The risk of continuing to prop up demand for assets is that it keeps their price high. This can cause inflation. So, I THINK, the poster means to say that the prolonged QE program (not the tapering of said program) has the potential to unleash lots of inflation. The Fed is acutely aware of this and is monitoring it closely, I assure you. [/quote]
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