will there be a QE 3 ?

The US should be hostile.

 

and who's fault is that? If the chinese government allow the yuan to appreciate then most chinese middle class will be able to afford the washing mashines or plasma TV's they produce for american consumption!

 

Wake me up when they stop starving and stop forcing abortions.

 

There's no reason. Americans just don't want to see others successful. They horde wealth in their own nation, and their own wealthy horde nation from the 'rest'.

 

There are starving in America and they don't.

 

There are no starving people in America.

China is a garbage pit of misanthopy.

 

yes I know.....here in Canada they have purchased some oil and gas interests along with a wood manufacturing plant to produce wood products for their funtiture factories in china.....one thing I have learned about the chinese is that they are fair traders!

 

that will change during the currency crisis in a few years

 

Okay, well this discussion is over. There are starving everywhere.

America is the world's new backward nation, I love it.

 

unfortunately most americans wont see it until they get hit over the head with it!

 

I don't think so, I believe that the days of the trans-Atlantic ocean liner are over.

 

Yes....may be within a couple weeks of the official end of QE2 this month or sometime over the next year but it will happen.

 

LOL are you talking about the Queen Elizabeth ocean liner?

 

although I think QE will just continue through the summer, I dont think they will announce it for awhile for fear of how the markets will react!

 

Agreed.....at this point in time it is just a wait and see kind of thing.

 

just watch the interest rate on treasuries.....if it remains at these rediculous levels then you know the fed is still in there buying treasuries!

 

Oh I have been and do daily. The 10 yr fell 0.053 today to 2.995.

 

and so lets face it......nobody in their right mind will buy a 10 year note that only pays 3%.......but the fed would be! So if interest rates remain in the 3% range then you know the fed is in there buying!

 

Um. Preferences are subjective. You can't know why people would buy something. They may take the hit in value on treasuries because they feel the liquidity provided by those treasuries is a hedge against uncertainty about the economy.

 

That depends on the free market, QE 3 is merely postponed to see whether they will spend their trillions of capital or continue to hold it hostage to rebel against government regulations.

 

I disagree. I think that because the GOP and the conservative think tanks and MSM have muddied the waters, and Obama isn't putting up a serious fight against the misinformation, that Bernanke feels the political pressure to take a GOP approach of sitting on his hands for a bit and not doing enough to help stop a double dip. But frankly, many of the issues could be fixed with a stimulus focused more on infrastructure improvements that include new projects as well as fixing older, crumbling infrastructure, like roads, bridges, water/sewer lines, electric transmission, gas lines, etc.

 

It's more of a demand problem, at this point. And the government should step in to push for more mortgage adjustments for homeowners underwater in their loans.

Here's a possibility from last year: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5556

 

It was a lot worse in the 1930s. And the idea that fixed the problems and saw over 40 years of growth in the economy was Keynesian spending policies. So to say that there is no possible exit from the economic woes is not correct.

 

Investors looking for safe havens would. Particularly if the economy goes into a double dip.

 

and so what happens if there is no QE or no more stimulus?