Judging the impact of QE
Thursday, November 05, 2009
The BBC carries this interesting video discussion with De Anne Julius about the impact of the Bank’s Quantitative Easing programme designed to support demand and lending in the UK economy. She emphasises the importance of gradually withdrawing the QE programme and she argues that the main effect of QE so far has been to hold down the interest rate on government debt (gilts) but that there is little evidence so far that QE has enabled a rise in lending to consumers and small businesses. The Indy’s Big Question looks at QE in their edition today.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
With government borrowing set to rise above £175bn this year and total public sector debt already approaching 60% of GDP and set to surge much higher in the coming years, attention is now focusing on who will pay for this almost total collapse of fiscal discipline. There truly is no such thing as a free lunch - next year the costs of servicing the national debt will be over £60m a day.
The latest National Institute report makes for somber reading. They project that an economic recovery built around exports may do little to reduce the size of government borrowing and escalating debt and that a structural budget deficit in excess of 6% of GDP is likely to persist. Ray Barrell’s quote in this article in the Times is a classic example of the problem of inter-generational equity:
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