Federal Reserve announces plans for additional economic stimulus The Federal Reserve said that it arranged the choice of more economic easing after the release of August's poor jobs report. Those endeavors have been formulated, and were publicized on Thursday. Article resource: Feds Economic Stimulus

Lower borrowing costs

The Federal Reserve has decided it is necessary to lower borrowing costs even more after a two-day meeting with the policy committee. The Fed explained that it will spend $40 each month on mortgage backed securities to do this. This will be a 3rd round of “quantitative reason.”

Short term interest rates will stay at historic lows for six months longer than they used to until the end of 2015. The Federal bank has publicized this change in policy. In 2013 and 2014, the Fed lowered its growth outlook for 2012 from 2.4 percent to 2 percent. By 2014, the joblessness rate is expected to decrease from 8.1 percent to 6.7 percent too.

Announcement leads to good investing

There were four times as many stocks increasing than there were following after the announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 200 points to the highest levels since December 2007. Bernanke is the Federal Reserve chairman who explained that he hoped the stock would rise after the announcement. That was part of the plan.

Could be to help

Obama’s campaign Some may say the timing of the move is calculated to raise the public’s confidence in the economic recovery, and the policies of the Obama Administration, just weeks before the election in November. To those critics, Bernanke said: “We make our decisions based entirely on the state of the economy.”

But will it be sufficient?

Some analysts, however, criticized the efforts as insufficient. Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, said: “We doubt it will be enough to get the economy on the right track. It’s only a matter of time before speculation begins as to when the Fed will raise its purchases from $40 billion a month.” Some economists believe that it will take about three years for the joblessness rate to drop below seven percent.

If the Fed spends $40 billion a month on mortgage bonds for three years, it will amount to $1.4 trillion, which are still less than the $1.7 trillion spent in the Fed’s first round of bond purchasing. That lasted from November 2008 to March 2010. An additional $600 billion was put towards bonds from Nov 2010 through June 2011. Inflation is only going to increase with bond buying, and many critics do not want it to occur.

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