quantitative easing, quantitative tightening, us federal reserve

Why the U.S. Fed Deployed Quantitative Tightening (QT) in the Market

Starting in October 2017, the U.S. Federal Reserve began shrinking its balance sheet by billions of dollars per month. By December 2018, it had sold off treasury and mortgage-backed securities worth US$365 billion. The process is known as quantitative tightening (QT) and aims to bring balance to an economy that was pumped up by quantitative ...

Jack Roberts

The Federal Reserve.

Is Quantitative Easing Negatively Affecting Financial Markets?

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. Federal Reserve embarked on a never-before-seen quantitative easing (QE) program that pumped billions of dollars into the American economy. While this had a positive effect on the markets early on, some experts feel that we might now have to suffer the negative consequences of such ...

Jack Roberts

A one-dollar bill.