{"id":285,"date":"2013-06-19T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/?p=285"},"modified":"2014-03-14T02:59:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T06:59:57","slug":"fomc-quantitative-easing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/2013\/06\/19\/fomc-quantitative-easing\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Set to Speak on the State of Quantitative Easing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:30 p.m. ET today, the Federal Reserve Chairman is hosting a press conference on the fate of interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some key things to watch for:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The fed has been buying bonds at $85B\/month. Will the fed taper off this quantitative easing (QE)? If so, how much?<\/li>\n<li>What are the implications of the risk of a liquidity squeeze in China?<\/li>\n<li>How will QE tapering effect the gold markets?<\/li>\n<li>What impact will QE tapering have on the rest of the world? There&#8217;s speculation emerging markets like South Africa may be at highest risk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/4944768?v=3&amp;wmode=direct\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"302\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a style=\"padding: 2px 0px 4px; width: 400px; background: #ffffff; display: block; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Streaming live video by Ustream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:30 p.m. ET today, the Federal Reserve Chairman is hosting a press conference on the fate of interest rates. Here are some key things to watch for: The fed has been buying bonds at $85B\/month. Will the fed taper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/2013\/06\/19\/fomc-quantitative-easing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4699,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,6482],"tags":[16069,780,5222,1077,109821],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-finance","tag-federal-reserve-bank","tag-globalization","tag-interest-rates","tag-international-trade","tag-quantitative-easing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/willbanks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}