Updated: Ben’s QE Progress Report
Posted on May 27th, 2009 at 2:50pm by beetlbumjl
Tags: Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Qualitative Easing, TNX, Treasury Bonds
Tickerguy updates his graph of Bernanke’s Quantitative Easing progress through the 10yr Treasury Note:

What does this mean? For one, higher mortgage rates. With housing bubble prices already deflating, higher borrowing costs are only going to contribute more downward pressure. (Good luck to anyone insane enough to still hold an ARM.)
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May 28th, 2009 at 7:23 am
May 28th, 2009 at 9:20 am
More Fed commentary from Yves Smith over at naked capitalism as well.