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Behind the Money

Why central banks are baffling investors

Behind the Money

Topher Forhecz

Markets, Investing, News, Banking, Finance, Business, Business News, Crypto

4.4350 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Federal Reserve has spent more than a decade buying up government debt as part of a post-2008 program to support the economy, also known as quantitative easing. Now with inflation reaching record highs, those days are over, and a new era of quantitative tightening is emerging. On this week’s episode, the FT’s markets editor Katie Martin explains how markets expect to grapple with the change.  


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For further reading:

Did QE cause inflation?

The mystery of how quantitative tightening will affect markets

Did central bank balance sheets really need to get so big?


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On Twitter, follow Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07)


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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So there's a part of the world's financial system that's sometimes known as it's plumbing.

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And the FT's markets editor, Katie Martin, says that it's not really quite as thrilling as something like say the stock market.

0:44.5

You know 99% of the time this sort of plumbing is just it's just super boring.

0:50.5

It's the stuff that central banks do in the background of markets, the stuff that makes money flow around the global system.

0:58.0

Like no person in their right mind who does not do this sort of stuff for a living should be paying

1:03.2

the blindest bit of attention to it.

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For a long time, Central Banks, including the Federal Reserve, have been doing this thing

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in the plumbing called quantitative easing, or QE for short.

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QE is this process where central banks buy a predominantly government bonds in an effort to push down yields. The idea is that this will push the private sector into investing in other areas and eventually stimulate the global economy.

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