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Turn the FOMC Meeting Today into Gains

By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - October 29, 2014

The FOMC meeting today will mean one thing: accommodative monetary policy is ending.

This may spook some investors who have rode this Fed-driven bull market to big gains.

Here's how you can keep scoring gains even with less easy money flooding the markets.

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Turn the FOMC Meeting Today into Gains

By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - October 29, 2014

The FOMC meeting today will mean one thing: accommodative monetary policy is ending.

This may spook some investors who have rode this Fed-driven bull market to big gains.

Here's how you can keep scoring gains even with less easy money flooding the markets.

The Fed Balance Sheet Explained

By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - October 28, 2014

The Fed balance sheet has been expanding at an alarming rate since the financial collapse in 2007.

And there's no surprise the markets have gone along for the ride.

But this week's FOMC meeting will mark an end to that, and no longer will markets be able to fall back on easy money policy.

Here's where the Fed is now, how it got here, and how you can invest around it.

The Real Reason the Federal Reserve Is Afraid to Raise Interest Rates

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - September 12, 2014

When the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the U.S. Federal Reserve meets next week (Sept. 16-17) to consider when it should raise interest rates, it will have a huge disincentive to do so.

And we're not talking about what you'll hear in the mainstream media about whether the unemployment rate is finally low enough, or whether U.S. economic growth is finally strong enough to warrant tightening monetary policy.

No, what the Federal Reserve fears most is a problem of its own creation...