Quantitative easing"”in which the Federal Reserve buys securities to bolster the financial markets"”worries many investors, because they fear the Fed won't be able to prevent a flood of liquidity from setting off inflation and debasing the dollar.
But QE certainly isn't new.
A little birdie recently emailed us a striking passage about a U.S. government intervention in the financial markets 145 years ago, almost to the day.
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