Several members of the Federal Reserve have begun in recent days to make calls for the central bank to provide additional accommodative monetary policies. Fed President Eric Rosengren and Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo each made comments this week that the Fed should consider resuming its purchase of mortgage-backed securities, which would effectively mark the launch of a third round of quantitative easing (QE3). The Fed last purchased mortgage-backed securities as part of QE1.

The intention of such measures would be to further stimulate the housing market, which has shown few signs of improvement despite the rebound in numerous other sectors of the U.S. economy since 2009.

Judging by recent history, another round of quantitative easing would almost certainly be positive for gold prices and share market but food price will also fly sky high.