Quantitative easing has concluded in the world's largest economy - at least for now. Almost nine years after the U.S. Federal Reserve started its(1)_____ program of liquidity(2)_____ through the purchase of asset-backed and Treasury securities in the wake of the global financial crisis, Fed Chair Janet Yellen announced on Wednesday that starting next month the central bank would begin the(3)_____ of balance sheet. To their credit, Ms. Yellen and her colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee have walked the talk on their June decision to(4)_____ the mammoth $4.5 trillion balance sheet. Most crucially, they have done it in a manner that(5)_____ the risk of a 'taper tantrum' similar to that in 2013 - when Chairman Ben Bernanke had hinted at starting to turn off the tap.