Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE QE2 IN DUBAI — A long and elegant era ended with a bang Wednesday as the world’s last true ocean liner sailed into history, though not obscurity.

The Federal Reserve is wrapping up its $600 billion QE2 treasury bond-buying program this month. Did it work or was it a waste of money? Some media analysis of QE2's effectiveness is shoddy. Based on ...

The QE2, which was launched 50 years ago, was a British "style icon" that became one of the most famous liners in the world - but it also marked the end of generations of large passenger ships being ...

A former QE2 captain and his son have set up a website dedicated to the history of the famous ocean liner – here are some of the highlights Dave has been a journalist all his working career, starting ...

If QE2 is too successful at unleashing money, inflation could shift into hyperdrive. Then the Fed will have to engage a completely different set of steering mechanisms. Here's what the experts had to ...

There's probably no better person to assess the state of this economy than Richard Koo, the Nomura economist whose book The Holy Grail Of Macroeconomics is all about the unique nature of a post-crisis ...

Remember deflation? Prices appeared to be circling the drain last summer, raising fears of a Japanese-style "lost decade" of spiraling personal debt, falling wages and economic stagnation. Well, you ...

The QE2, which sailed on its last voyage from its former home port of Southampton in England, was greeted by a large flotilla of private craft including the giant yacht My Dubai, owned by the ...