Nostalgia for former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing, “QE,” have we now? Let’s look into where that got us. QE refers to massive buying by our Fed of assets beyond United ...

In the Federal Open Market Committee's June meeting, the Fed decided that it would likely look to end its asset purchasing program (known as quantitative easing, or QE) with a $15 billion reduction in ...

Quantitative easing (QE) is a drastic measure by the central bank designed to inject liquidity into a collapsing economy where interest rates are already close to zero, in order to arrest it from free ...

Financial crises of a sort that may normally hit financial markets once a century struck twice in the past two decades. First there was the 2008–09 financial crisis, then the COVID-19 pandemic. In ...

Since quantitative easing's launch, economists have fretted it might spur runaway inflation, but now at least one economist is questioning whether central banks' asset purchases might lead to ...

The Federal Reserve has become the “only game in town” for America’s economic problems. That phrase once signaled admiration. Today it’s an indictment. A growing concern has taken hold in Washington ...

One of the most controversial charts in the post-financial crisis tracks the trajectory of the stock market, highlighting the periods of time when the Federal Reserve was employing quantitative easing ...

STEPHEN WILLIAMSON is an economist at Washington University in St Louis, specialising in monetary economics. He is also an instigator. And what he has most recently instigated is an epic blogospheric ...