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The End of QT and the Quiet Return of QE

Quantitative tightening (QT) is effectively over. Beginning December 1, 2025, the Federal Reserve halted balance‑sheet runoff, and by mid‑December 2025, the Fed’s Reserve Management Purchases (RMP) program was in full swing. These purchases—roughly $40 billion per month in Treasury bills with maturities of three years or less—are designed to “maintain ample reserves” in the banking system. In practice, this is quantitative easing (QE) by another name.

At the same time, regulators are signaling a willingness to lower reserve requirements for commercial banks, a form of deregulatory easing that increases lending capacity without the political baggage of traditional QE. The Treasury is also expected to rely more heavily on short‑term T‑bill issuance to refinance maturing long‑term debt and mortgage‑backed securities.

The combined effect of these factors is that M2 money supply will begin rising again, reversing the contractionary trend of the past two years and reintroducing liquidity into the financial system. For real estate, this will mark the first meaningful improvement in capital availability since 2021.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/economy/us-consumer-sentiment-april/index.html?utm_source=cnn_Breaking+News&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=B9O0ZzOcSmlro4TrdS%2BJkhxZQTzIXPmzWLzymkmbPHLH24L1QGJp%2Bavu0fzK4BM%2F&bt_ts=1744380779959 Is sentiment the predictor for recession? Are we already there? Have your spending habits changed, or are you ignoring the noise?

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