blogs.ft.com - 12/16/2008
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The markets have given their emphatic response to the banking bailouts put forward in the UK and US. Both rescue packages are flawed and will fail to stem the slide into not just recession, but possibly a global depression. These bailouts were aimed at the symptoms, rather than the cause. Money ...
vimeo.com - 12/23/2008
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vimeo.com —
Thank you Paddy. I'm just trying to decipher
what is new money and what is existing money
that is merely being redistributed. For instance, it seems Treasury is lending money to distressed banks (at 0-.25%) usng funds it borrows from savers elsewhere ...
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economistsview.typepad.com - 12/19/2008
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economistsview.typepad.com —
Can the Fed's current policy be described as
quantitative easing?: Zero, But Not Quite Quantitative Easing, by
Tim Duy : On the surface, the Fed’s recent statement should not have been much of a surprise. It was remarkably consistent with Fed ...
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Fed Watch: Zero, But Not Quite Quantitative Easing
econlog.econlib.org - 12/17/2008
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econlog.econlib.org —
(December 16, 2008 08:49 PM, by Arnold Kling)
James Hamilton writes, Will [purchases of mortgage securities and
other assets by the Fed] succeed if we just do it on a sufficiently large scale? I'm not at all convinced that it would. Our standard ...
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I Believe in Quantitative Easing
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"Quantitative Easing"
Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory —
Click charts to ENLARGE. The morning clown show celebrates the virtues of "quantitative easing", the legerdemain of central bankers.What has the Japanese stock market done under the wizardry of their central bankers during the past decade (Tokyo Nikkei monthly)? Pretty impressive, huh? An article from the Financial Times on Quantitative Easing. Another view. "Has the Fed moved toward a money growth target, rather than an interest rate target? William Poole – former President of ...
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The Capital Spectator —
... is correct when he warns that it's best to keep an open mind about the possible outcomes from here an out. In an October essay in FT's economist forum he wrote, "There is no guarantee that such a radical monetary policy will succeed. Central banks may have left it too late. Cutting the Fed funds target to 0% is necessary, but is unlikely to suffice. Driving the 30-year Treasury yield down to Japanese style levels, of 1% or so, may not be enough either." ...
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nihoncassandra.blogspot.com 3/8/2009 — The Brits are now offically obsessed with quantitative easing, first not comprehending it, then wryly examining it, finally yielding to a stoic skepticism about it's parochial impacts. There is a certain anodine perfection to the phrase, quantitative ...
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creditwritedowns.com 12/2/2008 — Marshall Auerback here. Just yesterday, Ed wrote a good post on quantitative easing . As much as I liked the post, frankly I think Ed omitted some crucial factors about Japan, which I will detail here for you. Japan’s policy makers generally ...
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europe.pimco.com 10/27/2008 — In March 2001, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) began an historic new monetary policy known as “quantitative easing” in an effort to revive Japan’s economy and end the deflationary decline in consumer prices. Five years later, on March 9, the BoJ ended the ...
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