Discover how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing influenced the M1 money supply, affected bank lending, and altered interest rates during financial crises.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has said it could use quantitative easing — the purchase of large amounts of financial assets such as bonds — as a way to boost the struggling ...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve (Fed) has grown its balance sheet from $4 trillion to nearly $9 trillion since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, using quantitative easing (QE) to stimulate the economy. The Fed ...

The Federal Reserve concludes a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee later today, and markets are anxiously awaiting what the committee will decide with regards to the central bank’s monthly ...

We assess the impact of simultaneous large-scale asset purchases, commonly known as quantitative easing (QE), conducted by Sveriges Riksbank and the European Central Bank (ECB) on bond risk premia in ...

Quantitative easing (QE) is a robust monetary policy tool used by central banks to stimulate the economy when interest rate cuts are no longer effective. It works by increasing the money supply ...

Quantitative easing—the Federal Reserve‘s program of buying long term government and mortgage debt known as QE—is one of the more controversial policies practiced today. While there is evidence that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Over the last year, few global narratives have irked Chinese ...

This case presents financial and macroeconomic data for the United States between 2007 and 2013, a period covering the financial crisis and Great Recession of 2007 2009 and the slow economic recovery ...

Jeff Ptak: I wanted to shift and talk about quantitative tightening. You wrote a piece recently on quantitative tightening. Before we get into some of the key takeaways, can you maybe refresh ...

That hot streak is about to end this year, with the top digital asset declining 7% in 2025 (as of Dec. 23). At the same time, ...