Quantitative easing (QE) has been criticized for helping fuel the post-COVID inflation boom and causing large central bank losses. In this paper, we argue that QE should be evaluated mainly on its ...
Federal Reserve officials may be underestimating the significance of a recent surge in U.S. money supply and bank lending, ...
The past few years of financial policy have been defined by the Federal Reserve’s decision to tighten the economy. By holding onto proceeds of maturing securities without reinvesting them and raising ...
The US Federal Reserve is likely to resort to quantitative easing if there is a crash in risk assets such as equities, said the former investment chief of Singapore’s wealth fund. The potential for a ...
Opinion

End quantitative tightening now

Ending active quantitative tightening is not monetary loosening. The Bank must stop adding avoidable pressure to the gilt market.
Powell spoke last week at the National Association for Business Economics conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of his key points in his address was an update on the status of the Fed's ...
REUTERS - Several Federal Reserve policymakers last month thought the U.S. central bank might need to do more to support the economy if the recovery stumbles, but there was almost no support for ...
The Bank of Japan said its large-scale monetary easing that continued for about 11 years failed to produce the initially ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should maintain monetary easing until inflation is above its 2 percent target but should be mindful of financial distortions caused by its policies, the ...
FRANKFURT, March 18 (Reuters) - Financial markets ⁠are ⁠underpricing geopolitical risks, increasing ⁠the potential for sudden sell-offs, European Central Bank supervisor Claudia Buch said on Wednesday ...