Fed mulled QE3 at last meeting

At their last meeting, Federal Reserve policymakers explicitly raised the idea of embarking on a third round of “quantitative easing” in order to jolt the economy, according to the just-released minutes of the confab. “Some participants noted that additional asset purchases could be used to provide more accommodation by lowering longer-term interest rates,” the minutes

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Fed mulled QE3 at last meeting

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