Mon, 01/05/2009 - 6:25 pm

Since the Fed has already lowered interest rates as low as they can possibly go, they only have one final weapon to deploy in order to free up the credit markets and promote lending -- quantitative easing.

Paddy Hirsch of Marketplace explains what the hell that means:



Tags: quantitiave easing, video, what the hell is

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