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A bond buying program the Fed completed in June was widely criticized internally and externally because it pumped $600 billion of newly printed money into the financial system, sparking fears of inflation&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The more potent step of launching a new round of bond purchases that would further expand the Fed&#8217;s $2.867 trillion balance sheet remains a possibility, but inflation likely would need to slow much further to spur Fed officials to take that step&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Economists aren&#8217;t so sure that the Fed&#8217;s latest gambit will do much to spur growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The odds are &#8216;Operation Twist&#8217; won&#8217;t work,&#8221; Anthony Sanders, a real-estate finance professor at George Mason University, said before the Fed action. The housing market has shown no reaction to interest rates that are already at record-low levels, he said. Freddie Mac&#8217;s latest survey finds the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages at 4.09%, the lowest level in more than 50 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111903791504576584841929780986.html?mod=djemalertNEWS\">Fed Shifts Bond Portfolio &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fed is trying to ease financial conditions without taking the more controversial step of increasing the amount of money that it&#8217;s pumping into the financial system, since it will be using money already generated from other programs. 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