Identified by the quantitative model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor, this small-cap company has adopted the latter strategy, but it has also supplemented this with smart acquisitions designed to enhance its product offerings and accelerate the pace of margin expansion through cost-saving synergies.

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And every corporation small and large is feeling the side effects of Global Quantitative Easing (GQE), and the near zero interest rate policy, which undermine the functions of markets as price discovery mechanisms.

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Quantitative Easing has as one of its goals, the creation of a small amount of inflationary pressure to overcome to natural deflationary pressure when the economy is depressed.

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Crafty, or sensible, we can say for sure that the change in policy represents a small easing in monetary policy, which will act much like another dose of quantitative easing over the coming months.

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Perhaps the chancellor does not want it to be said that he has benefited - even in this small way - from the disastrous performance of the economy that has made all that quantitative easing necessary.

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