Are the World’s Largest Central Banks Independent?
Video on YouTube, 2.36 min, uploaded by csFinancialist, April 5, 2013 … the world’s largest central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, are overseeing unprecedented easing programs *. While the European Central Bank, unlike the BoJ or the Fed, has not purchased large amounts of sovereign debt, it could do so in the future by ramping up its Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program. That program allows the ECB to purchase sovereign government bonds on the secondary market, which would be expected to lower interest rates in the event of renewed turbulence in the euro zone.
As part of its third quantitative easing program (QE3) **, the U.S. central bank has committed to maintain about $85 billion in monthly asset purchases. In Japan … (full text down under the YouTube-Video).
* easing programs: see Quantitative easing (QE) is a type of monetary policy used by central banks to stimulate the economy when standard monetary policy has become ineffective …;
** /US QE1, QE2, and QE3;
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