“The Fed’s $2.8 trillion ‘quantitative easing’ program has, among other things, lifted stock prices to record highs, driven interest rates to record lows and put a floor under what had been a reeling housing market. Yet barely a quarter of Americans even know what it is. A poll leading up to the Fed’s pivotal decision, expected Wednesday afternoon, found just 27 percent of U.S. adults could pick the correct definition of quantitative easing from among five possible answers.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/17/us-usa-fed-poll-idUSBRE98G18K20130917
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