quantitative easing

Insurers in Asia are turning to higher yield and less liquid assets in order to enhance absolute returns, preparing for Fed tapering in 2014, according to a global insurance survey.

The Fed cannot create inflation as long as the postwar generation is paying off mortgages and emerging markets are struggling under huge external debts, says CLSA’s Russell Napier.

Markets have over-reacted to the taper and under-estimated the persistence of low inflation, says Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at BofA Merrill.

Rating agency Standard & Poor’s questions the Japanese prime minister’s ability to achieve needed reforms.

Japan accused by senior Chinese banker of using quantitative easing to avoid dealing with the true sources of deflation.

QE1 and QE2 didn’t work, and nor did Zirp or Twist or anything else. Now the Fed chairman is turning to economics blogs for help. Why not?

Quantitative easing devalues the dollar's status and creates an unstable world, warns HSBC's chief economist Stephen King.

America’s second round of so-called quantitative easing will hurt Asian growth, according to our web poll last week.

President Obama’s visit will give a fillip to the Japanese in their spat with China, according to our readers.