In the five years since the Credit Crisis and Housing
Bubble, the United States economy has been marred with negative or
substandard economic growth.
How We Got Here
Job creation and economic activity have been best described as
anemic, resulting in unprecedented monetary policies initiated by
the U.S. Federal Reserve and the world's largest central banks.
These policies have been titled "quantitative easing" and
have succeeded in reducing interest rates to historically low
levels.
Since 2008, markets have watched Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke's every move as the Federal Reserve instituted
various forms of quantitative easing in hopes of stimulating
economic growth. Quantitative easing is designed to increase the
money supply by replacing Treasuries and other government agency
securities with printed currency, thus providing financial
institutions with capital in an effort to promote lending and
liquidity. This type of quantitative easing also
