Financial bubbles, which used to be rare, have become a way of life, thanks to a quarter century of easy money policies from ...

Discover how monetary policy impacts asset classes and learn strategies to optimize your investment portfolio during policy ...

This paper documents that households with higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) tend to consume goods with more ...

Explore how fiscal policy and monetary policy drive aggregate demand, influencing economic growth through spending, taxation, and money supply changes.

Federal Reserve expansionary monetary policy increases the money supply by lowering interest rates so businesses and consumers can afford to borrow money more easily. The Fed also lowers reserve ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Monday defended the easy money policies of the Fed and other major central banks and denied they are hurting emerging market nations. Bernanke also insisted ...

Considering the positive effects seen in the US, UK and Japan following the implementation of their highly expansionary policies, criticism has often been levelled at the ECB for not executing a more ...

Gold recently surged to a record high, driven primarily by strong fundamentals and is likely to continue to witness positive price support due to global expansionary monetary policy. This should ...

The paper shows that poorer, high-spending households face more volatile and cyclical inflation because they consume goods ...

Paul Krugman has a long essay in The Guardian about the follies of expansionary austerity. This is the idea that reducing government expenditure (more accurately, reducing the deficit) in a recession ...