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Fed slows down bond buying, says factors boosting inflation are expected to be transitory

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell during testimony before a House committee in October.

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced it will begin to wind-down a bond-buying program designed to prop up the economy during the pandemic.

The Fed started buying trillions of dollars of bonds right when the pandemic struck in early 2020, eventually slowing the pace to $120 billion per month in June 2020. The central bank’s balance sheet has topped $8 trillion.

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