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UK quantitative easing

  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Bank of England
    Oh no they’ve posted about quantitative tightening again

    QTful ones

  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    The Bank of England’s bond sales might finally become a hot topic. Does the OBR care?

    Call of QT: Bank ops

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Gilts
    Britain’s quantitative tightening will hurt us for a long, long time

    Ugly QT needs a rethink — fast

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Where the Bank of England’s QE programme went wrong

    And what can still be done about it

  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    We got the UK Government to finally release the document underpinning quantitative easing

    The Deed of Indemnity is published at last

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    The OBR’s mean decision on quantitative tightening

    About that headroom…

  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    UK economy
    The OBR should trust markets on the cost of quantitative tightening

    Rules of thumb aren’t helping

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Why the OBR’s QT assumptions could be worth £15.5bn to Rachel Reeves

    And what it all means for Arsenal

  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Chris Giles
    Forget the Budget — there’s a more important economic date coming up

    An MPC meeting next month looks set to shape interest rates, normalise risk taking and kill a silly fiscal rule

    The Bank of England
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Gilts
    Did the Bank of England misunderestimate QT?

    It’s all about the gilt tilt

  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    How to (maybe) solve the UK’s quantitative tightening puzzle

    Gilt-shift

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    UK economy
    What to say when you’re asked your view on Bank of England reserve tiering

    Sorry — you’re going to have to have a view

  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    UK economy
    Mr Farage goes to Threadneedle Street

    Prepare for the worst economic discourse ever

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    UK economy
    Getting into the weeds of active QT and UK fiscal rules

    Where’s your headroom at?

  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    UK banks
    Interest earned by big UK high street banks on BoE reserves surges to £9.2bn

    MP highlights scale of lenders’ ‘unanticipated income’ in 2023, but acknowledges some progress towards better savings rates for consumers

    Bank of England in the city of London
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    UK economy
    Unwinding British QE may end up costing £100bn. Could that have been avoided?

    The Bank of England can learn from history

  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Harriett Baldwin
    Bank of England’s quantitative tightening is a leap in the dark

    Lack of evidence or international example makes it hard to predict the outcome of the decision to sell gilts

    Dusk view looking up at the Bank of England facade
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    MPs sound alarm over fiscal cost of unwinding quantitative easing

    Potential losses on BoE bond-buying could have impact on public spending, says Treasury committee

    People walk outside the Bank of England
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Bank of England
    BoE losses on QE greater than other central banks, says ex-rate setter

    Michael Saunders warns counting costs of bond-buying programme in public debt could force fiscal retrenchment

    The Bank of England
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    UK economy
    QT = hurty

    When the Office for Budget Responsibility gets nasty

  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Gilts
    The growing fiscal drag of the BoE’s QE indemnity

    Trigger warning: central bank accounting

  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    UK government faces £150bn bill to cover Bank of England’s QE losses

    Estimated cost to taxpayers has increased sharply as interest rates have risen

    Montage featuring exterior of the Bank of England
  • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
    Central banks
    European central banks could speed up bond sales, say economists

    Vast bond portfolios bought via quantitative easing under scrutiny

    From left, Jay Powell, Christine Lagarde and Andrew Bailey
  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Bank of England forecasts £100bn payment from Treasury by 2033 over QE losses

    Central bank stresses figures relating to bond-buying programme are estimates

    The Bank of England building
  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    How quantitative tightening *really* works

    The world according to BEAPFF

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