For years, critics of Quantitative Easing (QE) have argued that it would eventually lead to runaway inflation, with central ...
The Federal Reserve continued its interest-rate-raising spree today to help curb inflation. The other thing the Fed has been working on is unwinding its “quantitative easing” program. One listener ...
The ECB recently cut its main interest rate to 0.25% in response to inflation heading further in the wrong direction from the 2% target that forms the ECB’s price-stability mandate. And the rate banks ...
On August 9, a day after the stock market plunged following a U.S. credit rating downgrade, the Federal Reserve announced that it would keep interest rates near zero through mid-2013 to calm Wall ...
Speculation is rife on what a US$14 billion treasury bond buy means for China's money-supply mechanism, and whether the rare move equates to quantitative easing For the first time in nearly two ...
Daisy Cooper, the party’s Treasury spokeswoman and deputy leader, called for a time-limited windfall tax on unexpected profits made by the banks.