Our colleagues Matt Phillips and Stephen Grocer put together a graphical look back at what the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program did and didn’t accomplish.

The Federal Reserve‘s second round of so-called quantitative easing comes to an end today, after $600 billion in Treasury-bond purchases over the past eight months.

Chairman Ben Bernanke‘s stated goals: lower mortgage rates to boost housing, reduce corporate bond rates to encourage investment and raise stock prices to increase confidence and spending. Markets responded soon after the program was first hinted at by Mr. Bernanke in an Aug. 27 speech in Jackson Hole, Wyo. But the end goals proved more elusive.

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