SMU and Copenhagen Business School Adjunct Professor and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Visiting Senior Research Fellow Joergen Oerstroem Moeller commented on how US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would manoeuvre the Fed out of quantitative easing without doing irreparable harm to the global economy. He felt that there seemed to be no other way but a gradual slowdown of quantitative easing, holding the breath, and hoping that an adroit combination of timing and judgement of how much or how little can keep the American economy at a growth pattern of 1.5-2 per cent in the expectation of a recovery that eventually will come even if it is less strong than most observers expect.