Quantitative easing
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2014 forecast cut to 0.8% from the 0.9% predicted three months ago as bank says it will reassess policy measures next year
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Hope for a major quantitative easing programme falter as Draghi calls for more reform
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Letters: The programme would help make the UK’s 30m buildings super-energy-efficient, dramatically reducing energy bills, fuel poverty and greenhouse gas emissions
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Programme by the rightwing Spectator editor took aim at the last Labour government over the rich getting richer, says <strong>Michael White</strong>
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Analysis How can the eurozone escape a lost decade?
Larry Elliott, economics editorUnlike the US and the UK, the eurozone has never really shown signs of emerging strongly from the financial crisis and recession of 2008-09 -
Mario Draghi suggested the bank could act to prevent dangerous deflation in comments cheered by European investors
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There has been much talk about how Abenomics, the three-pronged growth strategy for the economy introduced by prime minister Shinzo Abe, is failing
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Business leader: Consumers can vote with their feet on shopping trips, but rectifying sytematic wrongdoing is a task for the authorities
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Japanese policymakers announce plan to increase stimulus through expansion of its quantitative easing programme
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Annual growth of 3.5% stronger than the 3% forecast, boosted by a rise in exports and government defence spending
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Heidi Moore: The Federal Reserve has spent six years and over $3tn buying up bonds to save the economy. Now it has to figure out how to sell it all back without creating a panic
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The impact of quantitative easing was blunted by unconventional monetary policies and conservative fiscal policies
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Central bank’s head, Janet Yellen, confirms cessation of buying bonds in October after injection of £4.5 trillion over five years
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Over the last five years, the Federal Reserve has pumped almost $4.5tn into the US economy through quantitative easing
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Business leader America stems the flow of funds – just as China stalls and the eurozone risks going backwards
Business leader: Janet Yellen of the Fed is winding down its quantitative easing programme, but might she soon have to wind it up again? -
August industrial output slumps 4%, the biggest drop since January 2009
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Economics blog Germany’s malaise shows eurozone can’t cut its way to prosperity
Larry Elliott, economics editorThe experiment – German designed, German engineered and German exported – with austerity has failed, writes Larry Elliott
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Call for ECB to use QE to help boost eurozone as political uncertainty dents growth predictions, says thinktank
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Mario Draghi unveils unexpected plan to buys securities and bonds but stops short of unleashing full QE programme
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Phillip Inman: Poor data from eurozone and Japan comes as investors bet on European Central Bank moving closer to quantitative easing
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ECB president Mario Draghi can follow a similar economic route to Shinzo Abe's experiment in Japan. It's a risky path worth taking
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Analysis Nobel-winning economists challenge conventional thinking on recovery
Phillip Inman, economics correspondentDebt isn't always bad, fearing inflation is stupid and governments should spend far more, suggest top economists -
Analysis The eurozone needs an alternative solution to its economic woes
Larry Elliott, economics editorECB head Mario Draghi is calling for more growth-friendly policies, but a little quantitative easing won't do the job -
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IMF economists argue monetary policies introduced since 2008 may have increased banks' medium-term risk
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Osborne and the Bank realised the dire effects of too much austerity, too soon and tried plan B. The eurozone and ECB should follow suit, fast | Larry Elliott
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Business leader: Things are looking bleak for Italy. With no growth and no inflation it and other eurozone countries need an injection of quantitative easing to help them weather reforms and sanctions
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Letters: We have longer working hours, low wages and rapidly diminishing job security
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Euro area should repair bank balance sheets, step up reforms to boost jobs and the ECB should get ready for quantitative easing
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Analysis The 4% Non-Solution
Kenneth Rogoff examines two ways to beat the zero bound on nominal interest rates -
From cutting interest rates to doing nothing, here are the ECB's main options for Thursday's key meeting as it tries to tackle deflation in the eurozone
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Nils Pratley: A cut in the main interest rate from 0.25% to 0.15% or 0.1% seems certain, but the central bank could also prod in other ways
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Andrew Haldane denies quantitative easing and reducing interest rates have exacerbated inequality
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European Central Bank may launch 'pre-emptive action' against deflation, and quantitative easing remains an option
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development wants Thursday's ECB council meeting to cut interest rates and embrace quantitative easing
We should cash-bomb the people - not the banks