Taper tiger: Charting the QE era

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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's bold policy response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis has impacted financial markets and global economy in more ways than one. As his eight-year term atop the US central bank draws to a close in January 2014, he leaves deep footprints on everything from the battered US workforce to global stock prices to the cost of borrowing in emerging markets. Here's a look at what transpired over the era of rock-bottom interest rates and three rounds of aggressive 'quantitative easing':