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Aug 2022
17m 38s

Why central banks are baffling investors

Financial Times
About this episode

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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