59. QE OR NOT QE?: printing money for a purpose
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Hello! There is occasional bad quality audio on today’s episode for which apologies (tech gremlins). We hope it doesn’t spoil your enjoyment of the finer points of Quantitative Easing! II’s a term thrown around which for many of us falls somewhere between the "Offside Rule" and "Quantum Mechanics". But it’s really important we understand it because it is having big effects. Fran Boait and Josh Ryan-Collins get us up to speed with the basics and explain why it matters, and how we could be putting QE to significantly better purposes.
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