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 ...

Can you elucidate the dynamics of quantitative easing and how its effects would be transmitted to the real economy? Desmond: Having reduced the federal funds rate to 0-0.25%, the Federal Reserve has ...

The past few years of financial policy have been defined by the Federal Reserve’s decision to tighten the economy. By holding onto proceeds of maturing securities without reinvesting them and raising ...

When I wrote here last week (“The Year Of The Fire Horse: The Year That Central Bankers Become Largely Irrelevant”) I speculated that the Fed will become irrelevant sometime in this year of the Fire ...

The Fed's "Securities Held Outright" rose by $2.7 billion in the banking week ending February 25. The current round of quantitative easing continues. Since the banking week ending December 3, 2025, ...

Anthony Pompliano is chairman and chief executive of the financial services firm ProCap Financial and chief executive of the investment firm Professional Capital Management. Last week, the Federal ...

The Federal Reserve will end its current round of quantitative tightening on December 1, signaling a potential shift toward quantitative easing. Since 2009, the Fed has managed monetary policy through ...

That's good for gold, stocks and long bonds. Eventually. Canada has been one of the biggest buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds in recent years. What now? What kind of spendthrift picks a completely ...

What kind of spendthrift picks a completely needless fight with one of the last banks in town willing to lend him money? Uncle Sam, that’s who. Especially in the figure of our irrepressible president, ...