Stephanie Flanders explains Quantitative Easing in 60 seconds

This has to be amongst the best 60 seconds of Economics you’ll ever see on television.  The superb Stephanie Flanders takes a leaf out of the RSA playbook to explain the basic theory behind quantitative easing.  Wonderful!!

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Unit 2 Macro: Monetary Policy and Inflation Glossary [5 May 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Evaluating 3 Years of Quantitative Easing [27 Mar 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Policies to Drive Economic Recovery [9 Mar 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: King on the UK Economy [15 Feb 2012]
Evaluating the effect of Quantitative Easing - A Case Against? [12 Feb 2012]
Man saves life by decreasing money supply! [19 Jan 2012]
Inflation - what’s up, what’s down and what’s going to happen next [17 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: UK Bond Yields Reach Record Lows [11 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Quantitative Easing in the UK [8 Jan 2012]
Where is the UK Economy? National Output [22 Nov 2011]
Economics at the Movies: In Time [13 Nov 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: A New £50 comes into circulation [2 Nov 2011]
Why Is Macroeconomics Such A Mess? [11 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Interest Rates and Income Inequality [16 Sep 2011]
Monetary Policy Roundtable [25 Jul 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Dangers of High Inflation [11 Jul 2011]
UK Economy Update: What Mervyn Said [11 May 2011]
AS Macro: Updated presentation on monetary policy [4 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Expansionary Monetary Policy [4 Apr 2011]
UK Economy - BOE Policy Interest Rate [10 Mar 2011]
Tuesday Talks! The Smell of Money [2 Mar 2011]
Analysis and evaluation practice of the monetary policy decision [13 Jan 2011]
Predicting recessions - a mugs game [27 Oct 2010]
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King on the economy [11 Aug 2010]
Choppy times ahead [11 Aug 2010]
Where next for the UK economy? [23 Jul 2010]
A selection of revision notes on monetary policy [4 Jun 2010]
AS Macro Revision: Policies to Control Inflation [31 May 2010]
Financial Reform Bill - what goes around, comes around [26 May 2010]
UK inflation hits 17-month high [18 May 2010]
The Financial Crisis and Beyond [6 May 2010]
AS / A2 Revision - Where Next for the UK Economy? [2 May 2010]
Is 70% of the world economy in a liquidity trap? [18 Mar 2010]
Assorted Links (18 Jan 2010) - Focus on Interest Rates [17 Jan 2010]
Revision Presentation - Monetary Policy for AS Economics [27 Dec 2009]
Judging the impact of QE [5 Nov 2009]
Cause and effect of the weakness of sterling [27 Sep 2009]
China’s concern over US monetary expansion [9 Sep 2009]
Japanese unemployment rises to record high [29 Aug 2009]
BoE Health Check on the UK Economy [27 Jun 2009]
King and Chancellor at odds over intervention [17 Jun 2009]
David Miles - Brief Profile [28 Mar 2009]
Gilt trip - how the government raises cash [26 Mar 2009]
Bonds and the Bank [11 Mar 2009]
Quantitative easing explained by a super interactive resource [7 Feb 2009]
February 2009 – UK policy rates cut to historic low of 1% [5 Feb 2009]
Homeowners step away from equity loans [1 Jan 2009]
The Bank’s Recession Forecast [12 Nov 2008]
It’s official - we can now use the R word [23 Oct 2008]
Rachel Lomax on her career and a changing economy [29 Jul 2008]
Central Banks- Power Failure? [19 May 2008]
Central bank impotence [18 May 2008]
Revision Mind Map: Monetary Policy [21 Mar 2008]
Good Job? [13 Feb 2008]

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