WASHINGTON: When it comes to creating inflation, bond-buying by central banks may actually ultimately be counterproductive.
Called quantitative easing or QE, it continues to be a mainstay of the policy reaction to the ongoing economic malaise. Yet here we are five years later, and the evidence that QE can kindle inflation, much less revive the economy, is decidedly mixed.
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