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Pumping out cheap money got everyone spending but created these asset bubbles which the fed is about to nationalise.

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  1. verb Past tense and past participle of feed.

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  • He paraphrased a little Shakespeare: To be fed, or not to be fed, that is the question. —  THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS
  • Moreover, fiscal policy is redundant, since issuing treasuries becomes the same as issuing cash, which the fed is able to do without limit (Congress, in its wisdom, imposed a debt ceiling on the treasury, but not a ceiling on the size of the Fed's balance sheet). —  SocketSite™
  • It would also be nice if the fed was able to naked short assets. —  SocketSite™
  • Pumping out cheap money got everyone spending but created these asset bubbles which the fed is about to nationalise. —  British Blogs
  • So according to the chart posted by troy, which might be out of date, the fed is accepting mortgage backed securities at 90\% of their "value" as collateral for loans. —  MetaFilter Projects
 

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