To Monetary Policy. Rates will be staying where they are right now, which is close to zero, of course. Until at the very least the jobless rate falls to 6. 5 . We can only cross our fingers wherefore when that might be. Ben bernanke says these changes will make the central bank more transparent adding they can only help the markets. The central bank ramped up its Asset Purchase Program adding 40 billion to its 40 billion a month purchases of mortgagebacked bonds. He spoke about the objectives during wednesdays news conference. The asset purchases and the rate increases have different objectives. The asset purchases are about creating near term momentum in the economy, trying to strengthen growth and job creation in the near term. And the increases in the federal funds rate are about objectives. On that note, lets get dinos take on the latest move. Grpg month. For you, this was expected. The 85 billion was expected. The move to the thresholds, that is, i think, we expected it was happen