Quantitative easing (QE) is a non-traditional monetary policy tool used by central banks, particularly when interest rates are already low and cannot be reduced further. It was popularized during the ...

Quantitative easing stimulates the economy by increasing bank lending and consumer spending. The Fed buys securities from banks, boosting their liquidity and lending capacity. Potential risks include ...

It's been almost two decades since the Federal Reserve, America's central bank, first used quantitative easing (QE), an unconventional monetary policy tool. As Nancy Davis, portfolio manager of the ...

For years, critics of Quantitative Easing (QE) have argued that it would eventually lead to runaway inflation, with central ...

Is it possible that Ben Bernanke and now, Janet Yellen along with the rest of the Federal Reserve Board got it right? Have they captained us out of the depths of global financial collapse and into a ...

St. Patrick’s Day is still just over a month away, but when Corporate America looked through its pockets it found just over $300 billion in magic money that the leprechauns had apparently left there ...

Nigel Farage has urged the Bank of England to welcome cryptocurrency and change its approach to quantitative easing during ...

About the authors: Viral V. Acharya is C.V. Starr professor of economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business and former deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of ...

Stock prices plunge as Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, hints at phasing out quantitative easing, the process of buying bonds to the tune of $85 billion per month, thus adding purchasing ...

Ben Bernanke's second round of quantitative easing (aka QE2), intended to stimulate the economy, is coming under review following a spike in interest rates. Since the goal of QE2 is to boost ...