The QE theory of everything
How the $30 trillion quantitative easing experiment reshaped our world – from Brexit to the dominance of Big Tech.
ByQuantitative easing
The Bank of Japan’s new governor has the hardest job in economics
Ueda Kazuo faces a more extreme version of the challenge facing the UK: the end of cheap money in a…
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Mervyn King: “The Bank of England made a terrible mistake”
The former governor of the Bank on what Kwasi Kwarteng got wrong and how quantitative easing helped fuel the inflation…
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How Brexit broke the UK’s fiscal credibility
The UK's financial crisis is the product of years spent ignoring economists and businesses.
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The UK government gave £450bn to the richest – it should take it back for the people
We need a wealth tax to redistribute the hundreds of billions of pounds that quantitative easing handed to the wealthiest.
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Q is for Quantitative Easing: an emergency policy for the decade that growth forgot
In the autumn of 2008, as the global financial crisis intensified, governments and central banks were confronted by the threat of…
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How the world’s greatest financial experiment enriched the rich
Western governments have printed trillions of dollars to boost their economies. While the asset-rich have reaped the benefits of QE,…
ByThe case for a new kind of quantitative easing
Policy-makers are clinging to a rigid determination to do everything at arms-length. Even when it do
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