December 2025 marks the official end of the largest cycle of quantitative tightening the Federal Reserve has ever undertaken. From a peak of $8.93 trillion in June 2022, the Fed has allowed $2.4 ...

The quantitative easing policy that began in 2020 has transformed into a quantitative tightening policy as the Federal Reserve looks to combat demand-driven inflation The Fed recently reduced the ...

The Federal Reserve has shifted from quantitative tightening to quantitative easing, injecting billions into the economy.

The year 2023 is shaping up to be a challenging one for the Federal Reserve System. The Fed is on track to post its first annual operating loss since 1915. Per our estimates, the loss will be large, ...

About the authors: Viral V. Acharya is C.V. Starr professor of economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business and former deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of ...

The Federal Reserve has been using quantitative easing and quantitative tightening to conduct monetary policy. The approach has been effective in achieving the Federal Reserve's goals. The strong ...

Upside down and backwards! Nearly 13 years since the Fed launched “quantitative easing” (aka “QE”), it is still misunderstood, both upside down and backwards. One major camp believes it is inflation ...

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio stated on Thursday that the Federal Reserve’s announcement to stop Quantitative Tightening (QT) and begin quantitative easing (QE) next year could be a case of ...

Federal Reserve Building, postcard of the headquarters of the Federal Reserve System (aka Fed), at Constitution Ave in Washington, DC, 1939. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Fed ...

Clearly, Goodfriend’s paper did not age well. It is offered up within The Rise of Central Banks, a new book by Leon Wansleben, an academic at the Max Planck Institute, as evidence of the complacency ...

One of the scariest things about the Federal Reserve’s massive debt-buying program throughout the recession was its potential for fueling crippling inflation. Common sense economics implied that ...

During the pandemic, the Federal Reserve has tried to support the economy through "quantitative easing"—essentially a way the central bank injects more cash into the financial system. Today, it tapped ...