The Federal Reserve’s second round of quantitative easing (QE2) ends next month. Last November, the FOMC announced that the Fed would purchase an extra $600bn in US government bonds by th middle of this year in addition to reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities into longer-term Treasuries. Who will fill the Fed’s shoes once it is gone?
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