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Oh... and it's also worth noting. This QE isn't targeted at government bonds. It's mostly targeted at "Mortgage Based Securities."

So, they are responding to an economic downturn created by mortgage based securities being artificially over valued by buying mortgage based securities that were overvalued because banks were forced to buy them so people could get loans... to artificially over value them so people can get loans to buy homes.