Kevin Warsh is right to point out the influence of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet on inflation (“Interest Rates Are a Sideshow in the Fed Drama,” op-ed, July 29). Until the global ...

Yet the real assets behind these numbers changed little, reflecting, in effect, the asset-inflationary nature of quantitative easing. The effects of asset inflation are as profound as those of the ...

The Federal Reserve is reported to be considering “sterilized quantitative easing,” forgetting who won the classic debate on monetary policy. It’s a huge mistake, with the worst positions ...

Quantitative easing is when the Fed adds extra money into the system. It’s a bit like the Fed sticking a hosepipe into the deep end of the pool and turning it on. This is new money, and idea is ...

Quantitative easing (QE) was the catch phrase of the day on Tuesday as the markets digest both the Bank of Japan's new and possibly radical asset purchase program and rate reduction pair, and the ...

The practice of quantitative easing began as early as the 1990s, when Japan’s central bank was desperate to fight decades-long inflation and stimulate the economy, although the experiment was ...

Quantitative easing involves a country's ... causing price rises and eventual inflation. In order to counter these effects, ... Some give credit to economist John Maynard Keynes for ...

The Bank of England uses its computers to create new money. It then injects this into the economy in ways designed to get money flowing but without creating inflation. So it doesn't give this ...

There was no urgent need for the European Central Bank to embark on a program of quantitative easing, since the current decline in inflation rates is temporary and it isn’t having a negative ...

Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. Quantitative easing, which saw major central banks buying government bonds outright and quadrupling their balance sheets since ...