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Tapering
How Fed "tapering" can make mortgages more expensive
Dec 2, 2021
It opens the door to interest rate hikes.
With a road map to higher interest rates, the Fed starts with baby steps
Sep 23, 2021
The U.S. economy will need to keep improving in order for rates to go up.
All this talk about the Fed "tapering" bond-buying — what's it to you?
Sep 22, 2021
Two words: interest rates. On stuff like mortgages. Business loans. Keeping them low keeps capital flowing in this pandemic economy.
How has the Federal Reserve's bond buying helped the economy?
Aug 19, 2021
Those bonds have helped keep lots of money flowing into the economy. But now, the Fed is signaling that its going to taper off its monthly purchases.
The World Bank has a sunny forecast for the year
Jan 15, 2014
As rich economies expand, stronger growth globally is expected.
Want to know how to taper? Ask a candle maker
by
David Gura
Nov 20, 2013
We don't know when the Federal Reserve will trim its bond-buying policies that boost the economy, but we do know that tapering that program will be intricate work.
Who wins after the Fed's no tapering news?
by
Gus Faucher
Sep 20, 2013
After the Fed's surprising announcement that it will continue stimulus spending, there are winners and losers. We sort them out.
For public good, not for profit.
Federal Reserve confounds the economic forecasters
Sep 19, 2013
The Federal Reserve's big surprise: no cuts to bond buying for now, the economy isn't strong enough.
European markets surge in reaction to the Fed's decision
Sep 19, 2013
The Federal Reserve's big surprise: no cuts to bond buying for now. And European investors gladly welcome the news.
Bernanke's taper -- that wasn't
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Kai Ryssdal
Sep 18, 2013
Economists had expected the Fed to scale back its bond-buying program. Economists were wrong.