The Federal Reserve’s persistently aggressive monetary policy has had a paralyzing effect for many investors over the last several years. Like a skillet of boiling hot milk being emptied on one’s foot, repeated monetary stimulus programs, including three rounds of quantitative easing, two rounds of Operation Twist and the quintupling of the Fed’s balance sheet, has distorted capital markets in such a way that it has imprisoned many investors to a bower of heightened risk control and uncharacteristically short-term thinking amid the expectation that the negative spillover effects from such unprecedented policies will eventually come home to roost in a significant way. But as we enter the twilight of the Fed’s supposed final round of quantitative easing, the confined investor has reason for gladness, for they can continue to delight in the splendor of today’s market while also knowing that nature never deserts the wise and pure in the end.
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