Economics

Will Quantitative Easing Cause Inflation?

QE is a policy that consists of substantial, long-term, and widely publicized open market activities (The Economist, 2014). QE is more correctly described as reserve creation rather than money creation. A central bank purchases securities and pays for them with bank reserves (the central bank’s liabilities and commercial banks’ assets), so growing the central bank’s

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