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QE2 Is The New ‘Qualitative’ Easing For The Fed: Will It Be More Effective?

Published on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 - Volume: 53 Issue: 42

Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 42

18-Oct-2010

QE2 Is The New Qualitative Easing For The Fed: Will It Be More Effective?

By Shawkat Hammoudeh

Dr Hammoudeh is Professor of Economics and International Business at Drexel University. He can be reached at hammousm@drexel.edu.

During the Great Recession, the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) followed a monetary policy by purchasing $1.7 trillion worth of mortgage-backed securities as part of its quantitative easing (QE) to stimulate the...