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The Fed’s recent announcement that it would begin to taper QE in January did not generate any financial turbulence, largely because markets had already undergone sizeable adjustments last summer, when the Fed first indicated its plans to move in this direction.

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We could print different meds for tapering for a patient on a steroid taper, or tapering from pain medications.

Gravity causes this expansion and rising, which gives flames their characteristic taper.

And in proportion, what would the size of the sphere and the length, and what would the taper be to the Earth?

Indeed, last summer, when speculation that the Fed would soon begin to taper its purchases of long-term assets (so-called quantitative easing), financial-market pressures were strongest in markets suspected of having weak fundamentals.

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