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Quantitative easing (QE) is a monetary policy action where a central bank purchases predetermined amounts of government bonds or other financial assets in order to stimulate economic activity. [1] Quantitative easing is a novel form of monetary policy that came into wide application after the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
On Nov. 25, 2008, in the depths of a once-in-a-lifetime financial crisis, the U.S. Federal Reserve, in partnership with the Treasury Department, announced a plan to buy up to $800 billion worth.
The term "Greenspan put" is a play on the term put option, which is a financial instrument that creates a contractual obligation giving its holder the right to sell an asset at a particular price to a counterparty, regardless of the prevailing market price of the asset, thus providing a measure of insurance to the holder of the put against falls in the price of the asset.
Richard Andreas Werner (born 5 January 1967) is a German banking and development economist who is a university professor at University of Winchester.. He has proposed the "Quantity Theory of Credit", or "Quantity Theory of Disaggregated Credit", which disaggregates credit creation that are used for the real economy (GDP transactions), on the one hand, and financial transactions, on the other ...
The central bank released details for the secondary market purchase of federal government securities on Tuesday, as part of a series of liquidity measures that include the country’s first-ever ...
April 30, 2008 2.00% 2.25% 8–2 The FOMC cut rates by 25 basis points. They drew back on their easing bias somewhat by removing "downside risks to growth remain" from its statement, but left no sign of a future pause to the interest rate cuts. Fisher and Plosser dissented, preferring no change. Official statement: March 18, 2008 2.25% 2.50% 8–2
Gold is the most well-known commodity, and it unfortunately hinges on the Federal Reserve's controversial quantitative-easing program, which could be tapered in the near future. In her ...
"Skills, Ownership, and Economic Security", Ben Bernanke, July 12, 2005, address with summary, video, and transcript; Lectures by Ben Bernanke to an economics class at George Washington University March 2012 "Chairman Ben Bernanke Lecture Series Part 1" Archived March 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Recorded live on March 20, 2012, 10:35 am MST