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Central Banking – the consequences of QT

Gabriel Stein 28 August 2017 28 August 2017All articles, Central Banking, Global Economy, Global Financial Crisis

With the US Federal Reserve widely expected to start the process of shrinking its balance sheet in the next few months – a process that has been christened Quantitative Tightening or QT – we consider the consequences for economies and markets of the approaching normalisation.

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Central Banking – the great unwind

Gabriel Stein 13 August 2017 14 August 2017All articles, Central Banking, Global Economy, Global Financial Crisis

Central banks have always said that the unconventional monetary policy measures they have introduced in recent years are temporary, and they have been keen to restore policy to “normality” when the time is right. As that time approaches, the urgent question is what the great unwind will entail and how they will carry it out.

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