The Fed's latest announcement that it will be doubling its open-ended QE3 purchases to $85bn per month means that we can expect a large increase in the monetary base in 2013. As with previous rounds of quantitative easing, however, the impact on the broader monetary aggregates and price inflation will be very modest. We expect our measure of M3 to continue growing at a 5% annual rate.
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