Easy Money

Who taught politicians to print money

In the system, as it has evolved, the government does not print money on its own. It sells securities to the central bank which prints money to buy them. This started with the Bank of England being tricked into lending endless money to the government in the late 1790s by Prime Minister William Pitt.<br /><br />

Five years later: It's time Western countries stopped printing money

Once money printing is stopped or even slowed, interest rates will start to rise. This will mean that asset bubbles all over the world will start to burst, which will create its own set of problems.

Rs 210,000 cr: That's how much money RBI has printed in 3 months

The $34 billion swap arrangement offered by the RBI to banks has resulting in the printing of more than Rs 2,10,000 crore in rupee. Will this boost inflation?

Bernanke won't taper, unless bond market or dollar collapses

Ben Bernanke can't taper bond buying for the short-term consequences are a huge spike in bond yields and recession

RBI has debased the rupee; no hope in next Guv too

QE or no QE? If easy money ends, US will be back to 2008

The Fed's quantitative easing programme (QE) is the basis of the current US economy and any withdrawal of the QE would take the US right back to 2008

Why the new bear market theory in gold is all wrong

Europe and US may have caught the Japanese disease

Japan went into long-term deflation two decades ago. The signs are that even with huge printing of money, Europe is headed there, and so is the US

How our sinking oil firms are holding up bank credit

If hapless oil companies weren't borrowing like crazy to buy crude, we would have had negative credit growth this year.

Federal Reserve ends money printing, but the easy money party will continue

The Federal Reserve is unlikely to start sucking out all the money it has printed and pumped into the financial system any time soon.