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Why central banks are baffling investors
Behind the Money
English - August 17, 2022 04:00 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 105 ratingsBusiness News News finance markets business crypto banking Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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:
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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