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Quantitative easing
With demand down, there's a new buyer of Treasurys in town
by
Matt Levin
Nov 1, 2023
The Federal Reserve and major U.S. banks are buying fewer bonds than they used to. Hedge funds are picking up some of the slack.
Federal Reserve losses contribute to federal deficit
Oct 24, 2023
When the central bank makes money, it hands it to the Treasury. But now it's losing money as it pays interest to banks on their deposits.
Was the Bank of England largely to blame for the UK’s inflation?
Aug 1, 2023
A new British pressure group is calling for the UK’s central bank to “lose the power to create unlimited amounts of money out of thin air.”
To understand the Fed’s bond-buying dilemma, picture a lake
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 13, 2021
A Columbia Business School professor explains quantitative easing and the Feds' $120 billion per month bond-buying program with an analogy.
Did the Federal Reserve make economic inequality worse?
by
David Brancaccio
and Daniel Shin
Mar 3, 2021
Fed watcher Karen Petrou believes so, and she says the Fed can fight inequality with targeted policies.
What if COVID-19 checks were a regular occurrence?
Jun 24, 2020
"You just get a much bigger fiscal bang for the buck," says Mark Blyth, the economics professor and author of "Angrynomics."
Europe considers quantitative easing
by
Dan Bobkoff
Jan 21, 2015
Move by European Central Bank could boost moribund eurozone economy.
For public good, not for profit.
Why inflation is a central banker's goal
Oct 31, 2014
A moderate rate of inflation is evidence of a growing economy
The numbers for October 29, 2014
by
Tony Wagner
Oct 29, 2014
Hurricane Sandy was a "secret disaster" for the Red Cross. Let's do the numbers.
What the end of Quantitative Easing will and won't mean
Oct 28, 2014
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow and many are expecting it to announce an end to the bond-buying program of the past six years. What has been the effect of quantitative easing? And are reports of the end of stimulus misleading?