Nigel Farage has urged the Bank of England to welcome cryptocurrency and change its approach to quantitative easing during ...

Quantitative easing stimulates the economy by increasing bank lending and consumer spending. The Fed buys securities from banks, boosting their liquidity and lending capacity. Potential risks include ...

Europe's economic and monetary union, primarily represented by the euro, is a significant endeavor to establish a shared ...

St. Patrick’s Day is still just over a month away, but when Corporate America looked through its pockets it found just over $300 billion in magic money that the leprechauns had apparently left there ...

Sky's economics and data editor Ed Conway explains how an unwinding of historic Bank support for the UK economy has been ...

This case presents financial and macroeconomic data for the United States between 2007 and 2013, a period covering the financial crisis and Great Recession of 2007 2009 and the slow economic recovery ...

In the lead-up to Friday's Federal Reserve Board meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the burning question is whether Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will lean toward a third round of quantitative easing to ...

The Federal Reserve has typically used a short-term interest rate as the policy tool for achieving its macroeconomic goals. However, with short-term rates constrained near zero for much of the past ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has said it could use quantitative easing — the purchase of large amounts of financial assets such as bonds — as a way to boost the struggling ...

Ben Bernanke's second round of quantitative easing (aka QE2), intended to stimulate the economy, is coming under review following a spike in interest rates. Since the goal of QE2 is to boost ...