This is because fears of possible deflation are smaller than when the Fed last embarked upon quantitative easing, plus 10-year Treasury yields are already low.
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With U.S. economic growth remaining lackluster, the debate rages on whether the Fed will embark upon another round of bond-buying in 2012, widely known as quantitative easing.
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Through its program of quantitative easing, the Fed bought billions upon billions of Treasury paper to suppress American mortgage rates and ease the pain of the housing bust.
The risk here would be political: the Fed would be taking upon itself to intervene in the markets.
Therefore, you may want to modify your investment portfolio in one of two ways, depending upon the Fed's actions, to increase your potential returns.
All-too-often public pensions under attack for their investments rely upon information fed to them by the very Wall Street culprits at the center of the controversy.
However, the Fed will most likely seize upon the month-over-month change in the core rate, which registered a negative .6%.
For far too long, workers have relied upon spoon-fed retirement industry advice which aided and abetted employer fleecing of plans.
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In recent years, the basis upon which the Fed sets interest rates has been far from clear to the Fed itself, as well as to financial markets.
Bank of America's deal for Countrywide in January was certainly looked upon favorably by the Fed and other regulators, who were concerned that a liquidity-constrained Countrywide could further damage the financial markets already reeling from the credit crunch.
Upon becoming head of the Fed, his salary was halved.
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"If we mandate that the Fed is not involved in supervision then we make hasty, uninformed decisions inevitable when it is called upon as a lender of last resort, " said University of Chicago business school professor and Fed consultant Anil Kashyap in his prepared testimony.
Previously, the Fed let its second round of quantitative easing end without embarking upon a third round.
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But imagine the outcomes if Congress revoked the Fed's power to set interest rates and instead took it upon itself to enact them each quarter.
It will also build upon a regulatory blueprint policymakers, including Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, issued in March.
Fed policy-setters have gathered again to resume deliberations about the economy after last month embarking upon purchases of mortgage-backed securities in a bid to push down long-term interest rates.
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Depending upon your viewpoint, all of this is either a wise and brave policy response or the Fed is easing on down the road of Zimbabwean hyperinflation.
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