pelly replies, "you've been printing money," and he replies "well effectively and we need to do that because our economy is very weak and inflation is very low." so if you want to know the definition of "printing money," as some people say that is not a fair thing to say, we are not printing money but mr. bernanke, the chief of the fed, the guy that does it, says we are printing money. why does this matter to the average american, even those not planning to buy a treasury bill any time soon, will be affected. that is because mortgage interest rates, what we pay to borrow money to buy a house with, track the ten-year treasury yield so as a ten-year treasury goes up, mortgage rates go up, too. and it's much harder for people to buy a home or to refinance or if you want to sell a 40e78 it's harder -- sell a home it's harder for the person who wants to buy because they have to pay considerably more in interest rate. according to the "wall street journal." 30 year mortgage rate has gone up 16% in two weeks from 5% to 5.79%. this is the money when you go out to borrow money to by a house w