QE Through The Housing Channel

By |2018-04-23T12:15:24-04:00April 23rd, 2018|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Even after several years of them, monetary policymakers continued to tread carefully with large scale asset purchases (LSAP). Otherwise known as quantitative easing (QE), in the US they were first announced all the way back in the darkest days of global financial panic in 2008. Yet, in 2012 and 2013 concerns remained that they could prove too powerful. Then-Richmond Fed [...]