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"I understand what they're trying to do and I will tell you this, this is going to be difficult to stop or to exit," Cohn told Bloomberg Television today in Tokyo. "At the end of this -- there will be an end to quantitative easing -- we will have to go through the pains of stopping quantitative easing."
The Fed last month announced its third round of large-scale asset purchases since 2008, with no limit this time on the ultimate amount it would buy or the duration of the program. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke says stimulus will be expanded until the Fed sees "sustained improvement" in the labor market and that the strategy works in part by boosting the prices of assets such as equities.
"We know the Fed wants to create job growth," Cohn said. "We know that the Fed wants to create asset appreciation."
Fed Vice Chairman Janet Yellen said in Tokyo yesterday that policy makers have a plan to normalize monetary policy when the time comes. After it begins to raise its benchmark interest rate from near zero, the U.S. central bank has indicated it wants to sell many of the assets on its balance sheet in a "very gradual and predictable way," she said.
Normalizing Policy
"We know that this will be a challenging feat to normalize monetary policy," she said, noting bank balance sheets may be vulnerable to any sharp increase in rates.
The Fed isn't alone in easing monetary policy, with the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan both adding to stimulus in the past three months. The ECB cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.75 percent and pledged to buy the bonds of governments that agree to austerity conditions. The Bank of Japan (8301) last month boosted its asset-purchase fund by 10 trillion yen and abandoned a floor rate for bond purchases. ... Continue to read.
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