Why central banks are baffling investors

The Federal Reserve has spent more than a decade buying up government debt as part of a post-2008 program to support the economy, also known as quantitative easing. Now with inflation reaching record highs, those days are over, and a new era of quantitative tightening is emerging. On this week’s episode, the FT’s markets editor Katie Martin explains how markets expect to grapple with the change.

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For further reading:

Did QE cause inflation?

The mystery of how quantitative tightening will affect markets

Did central bank balance sheets really need to get so big?

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Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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Release date

Lydbog: 17. august 2022