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 ...

December 2025 marks the official end of the largest cycle of quantitative tightening the Federal Reserve has ever undertaken. From a peak of $8.93 trillion in June 2022, the Fed has allowed $2.4 ...

Learn how open market operations and quantitative easing differ in scale and purpose, impacting economic growth and monetary ...

Quantitative easing (QE) has been criticized for helping fuel the post-COVID inflation boom and causing large central bank losses. In this paper, we argue that QE should be evaluated mainly on its ...

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 ...

The US Federal Reserve is likely to resort to quantitative easing if there is a crash in risk assets such as equities, said the former investment chief of Singapore’s wealth fund. The potential for a ...

There was a swift reaction by the foreign exchange market to the news that the US had decided to pursue a policy of quantitative easing. The announcement, after the Federal Reserve’s open market ...