Ben Bernanke cannot use another round of QE without completely undermining the confidence of investors worldwide.
Fed officials must be proud of their unprecedented journey into the unchartered waters of QE.
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And broader financial conditions will remain ultra-accommodative after QE is ended, the latest FOMC statement read.
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And for the curious, unlike QE, there is some historical evidence that austerity can actually work.
So QE is a kind of magic bullet, helping all asset prices to rise.
So that leaves the option of quantitative easing (QE), or creating more money to purchase assets.
So many people loaded up on gold, looking for inflation to come in because of QE.
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The key point is that this could also happen within the existing framework for QE.
Then central banks resorted to quantitative easing (QE), a polite term for the creation of money.
At the past two monthly policy board meetings, BoJ decided to expand QE measures.
According to Goldman, guidance is the first line of defense, rather than more QE.
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Yet, June came and went with no QE, and so expectations were pushed off until September.
But if so, that is also what the Bank is planning to do with QE.
Since the inception of QE II, the money supply has grown at a 12.5% annual clip.
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Without those QE II asset purchases, we estimate that the money supply would have gone nowhere.
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Developed markets in Europe are unhappy with QE as a plan to stimulate GDP growth.
Only a few short months ago it was all about QE I exit strategies.
But most analysts still expect the latest round of QE to be completed as planned.
Several other QE sceptics will get votes on the Fed's main policy committee next year.
As to the possible inflation from QE, there was sharp divisive debate, with no clear resolution.
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The Bank of Japan launched the experiment of quantitative easing (QE) on March 19, 2001.
When asked, he indicated that, if needed, the Fed would do another QE program.
"QE is not inflating the world economies like governments have hoped, " said Mr Rose at HSBC.
No QE that the Fed could set in motion would avert that kind of a plunge.
Equity markets have improved on their own, and not because simply because of QE.
There should be no question, said Shirakawa, that BOJ has not been aggressively implementing QE.
In the past, QE programs have been mostly effective at driving the markets higher.
It is the fear of additional QE that has really spooked the bond market.
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By its own words, the goal of quantitative easing (QE) was to lower long-term interest rates.
Bernanke is trying to balance a generally unanimous body that wants both more QE and less.
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