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  2. Quantitative tightening - Wikipedia

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    Recessions. Quantitative tightening (QT) is a contractionary monetary policy tool applied by central banks to decrease the amount of liquidity or money supply in the economy. A central bank implements quantitative tightening by reducing the financial assets it holds on its balance sheet by selling them into the financial markets, which decreases asset prices and raises interest rates. [1]

  3. What is the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet? - AOL

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    During the COVID pandemic, the Fed expanded its balance sheet to almost $9 trillion through three different iterations of large-scale asset purchases, often referred to as quantitative easing (QE).

  4. Quantitative easing - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Monetary policy - Wikipedia

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    Monetary policy was considered as an executive decision, and was generally implemented by the authority with seigniorage (the power to coin). With the advent of larger trading networks came the ability to define the currency value in terms of gold or silver, and the price of the local currency in terms of foreign currencies.

  6. Where Were You When Quantitative Easing Began? - AOL

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    On this day in economic and financial history... 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 ...

  7. Helicopter money - Wikipedia

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    Helicopter money is a proposed unconventional monetary policy, sometimes suggested as an alternative to quantitative easing (QE) when the economy is in a liquidity trap (when interest rates near zero and the economy remains in recession).

  8. Greenspan put - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Money creation - Wikipedia

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    Lowering interest rates by reducing the amount of interest paid on central bank liabilities or purchasing assets like bank loans and government bonds for higher prices (resulting in an increase in bank reserve deposits on the central bank ledger) is called monetary expansion or monetary easing, whereas raising rates by paying more interest on ...