Fed Flattens Curve

Posted on March 18th, 2009 by in Market Observations

Today, the Federal Reserve shocked long term interest rates into complying with its policies by announcing that they would start buying long term treasuries. Immediately, the prices of long bonds started soaring, sending the yields crashing down. So why did the Federal Reserve do this? A problem arose in December when the Federal Reserve ran [...]

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