Presidential election may make QE3 even less likely

A look back at history throws cold water over suggestions that the Fed tends to alter its behaviour ahead of Presidential elections. Nonetheless, with political hostility towards the Fed currently high and the possibility that the Fed may want to keep its powder dry in case the US hits a fiscal cliff in early 2013, the Fed may be less inclined to change policy before this November’s election.

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