Fed's QE2 may have helped the economy, but ... - AP

It would drop interest rates and lift stock prices. It would ignite inflation. It was useless. Opinions of the Federal Reserve's program to buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds diverged sharply after the Fed unveiled it in November. Now, as the Fed wraps up its latest policy meeting Wednesday, the ...

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