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Quantitative easing

June 2024

  • Rishi Sunak in a BBC studio.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Harder to own your first home under the Tories, Rishi Sunak admits – UK politics as it happened

    PM acknowledges in BBC Panorama interview to air tonight that it is a challenge for people to buy their first home

March 2024

  • The Bank of England in London

    The Guardian view on the Bank of England’s week ahead: it’s time to start cutting rates

    Editorial: High rates only prolong economic stagnation and the farce of big bank profits while Britons can’t feed themselves

October 2023

  • Banknotes from various banks rolled up in a grid.

    ‘Ghastly expensive mess’: bond vigilantes return as deficits rise

    Governments face a surge in borrowing costs fuelled by high interest rates and conflict in the Middle East

July 2023

  • NatWest CEO Alison Rose

    Business live
    Nigel Farage says NatWest management ‘should go’ after CEO Rose admits discussing his bank account with BBC – as it happened

  • Bank of England

    Bank of England set to incur £150bn loss from bond sales after interest rate rises

June 2023

  • The Bank of England

    Bank of England’s quantitative easing scheme let ‘inflation take root’

    UK economy became reliant on cheap money due to the Bank’s actions, warns former permanent secretary to the Treasury

April 2023

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    The Bank of England was right, inflation has made us poorer. But whose fault is it?

    Larry Elliott
    Central banks are keen to blame the surge in inflation on anyone but central banks

March 2023

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse will not be a one-off – a banking crisis was long overdue

    Larry Elliott
  • Bank of England building

    Slash interest rates and stop bond sales, ex-policymaker tells Bank of England

January 2023

  • Kwasi Kwarteng at the Conservative party conference with Liz Truss

    Bank of England completes sale of £19bn emergency bond purchases after mini-budget

    Bloomberg estimates Bank made profit of £3.5bn after intervening to prevent run on pension funds

November 2022

  • The Bank is also expected to raise its base rate by as much as one percentage point to 3.25% on Thursday.

    Bank of England begins selling government bonds

    Central bank in bid to reduce its emergency stimulus to the economy and fend off claims it has lost its independence

October 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Twitter deal may signal point when the ‘everything bubble’ bursts

    Larry Elliott
    China’s property meltdown, the unwinding of QE and the tech stock plunge all show a fragile global financial ecosystem under stress
  • The skyline of the Square Mile in London.

    The Guardian view on big finance: addicted to government handouts

    Editorial: Instead of cutting public services, the Treasury should tax the windfall profits of the banking sector
  • stormy sky over the Bank of England

    Cliff edge looms for UK’s financial system

    BoE’s move to end bond buying is a big gamble given the magnitude of the bind Britain is in

September 2022

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Kwarteng’s fiscal pyrotechnics caused this mess – now we need some U-turns

    Nils Pratley
  • A view of the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street

    Bank’s intervention may not mark the end of market mayhem

August 2022

  • Bank of England view

    Bank of England hikes rates as it predicts 13% inflation and long recession

    Base rate raised by 0.5 percentage points to 1.75%, as Bank says inflation will hit 13% in October

May 2022

  • The Bank of England chair, Eddie George, and then chancellor, Gordon Brown.

    Independence day: why Gordon Brown gave the Bank the right to set interest rates

    Analysis: New Labour’s chancellor revealed his plan to a surprised Eddie George and his private secretary, now governor, Andrew Bailey

March 2022

  • Commuters at Waterloo station

    Observer business agenda
    Bank of England puts Covid behind it, but now must face costs of war

    Threadneedle Street is offloading debt, but the Ukraine situation poses a new dilemma for all central banks

December 2021

  • The Bank of England has raised the interest rate from 0.1% to 0.25% percent.

    The Bank of England has underestimated the risk inflation poses to stability

    Gerard Lyons
    With inflation set to exceed the Bank’s 2% target in 2022 – many people will be hit hard by a cost-of-living crisis
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