Whether at next week’s FOMC meeting or later this year, the Fed will almost certainly decide to scale back its asset purchases in the months ahead. However, Fed tapering is unlikely to be the major shock to the prospects for the rest of the world, or indeed for the US itself, that many have assumed.
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