The Federal Reserve announced a $1.2 trillion plan three months ago designed to push down mortgage rates and breathe life into the housing market.

But this and other big government spending programs are turning out to have the opposite effect. Rates for mortgages and U.S. Treasury debt are now marching higher as nervous bond investors fret about a resurgence of inflation.

via My Way News - ALL BUSINESS: Bond-market rout lifts mortgage cost.

Wait, you mean you can't just print more money to make things better? Who would have thought it? :-/