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 ...

In the lead-up to Friday's Federal Reserve Board meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the burning question is whether Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will lean toward a third round of quantitative easing to ...

In the wake of continued weakness in the Japanese economy and recent market turbulence due to the terrorist attacks in the U.S., the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently increased the intensity of its ...

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 ...

Following the 2008 financial crisis, central banks in advanced economies implemented a series of large-scale asset purchase programs, often referred to as quantitative easing pro­grams, with the ...

Citations: Krishnamurthy, Arvind, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. 2011. The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Long-term Interest Rates. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

World markets are practically giddy in their expectation for a new round of easing by the US Federal Reserve. As the Financial Times noted Thursday morning, “the FTSE All-World index is up 0.8 percent ...

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt would have an extra £10 billion a year for tax cuts if the Bank of England stopped selling the bonds it bought over more than a decade under quantitative easing, according to ...

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 ...