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The easy way to understand unconventional monetary policy

Summary:  It’s difficult to describe the magnitude of the monetary policy experiments now running around the world, most especially in China, USA, and Japan. At the end are links to a dozen posts attempting to do so with words and numbers. Today we do it with pictures. . The monetary stimulus programs running around the …

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How to predict the outcome of this great monetary experiment, and how we got into this box

Summary: Today we discuss the nature of the great monetary experiment now under weigh, with five years of zero interest rates and repeated doses of quantitative easing. What does it mean to say this is an “experiment”? If we cannot reliably predict the outcome, at least let’s understand how we got into this predicament. . …

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