Let’s cut the BS here. The Fed has maintained a more than highly accommodative stance for three years now and U-16 unemployment, food stamp usage, home prices, and virtually every other economic metric indicate that they’ve done little to boost the US economy in any meaningful way. QE has and always will be about boosting asset prices in the hope that the Fed can stimulate a recovery by getting the S&P 500 to some level.
The only problem with this is that people don’t engage in financial speculation to pay their bills. Incomes have and always will be the single most important metric for gauging consumer strength. And as the below chart from Morgan Stanley shows, the Fed’s policies of the last few years have done nothing to boost incomes (unless you work on Wall Street).
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