easy-money policy
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An easy-money policy is often pursued to encourage investment and economic growth. It can lead to inflation, however.
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The nominee, Kazuo Ueda, an academic, is expected to shift the central bank’s course away from the easy-money policy favored by outgoing chief Haruhiko Kuroda.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023
But financial markets are having difficulty adjusting to the central bank’s new posture after years of easy-money policy helped boost stocks and bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2016
Still, rising rates signal an end to the easy-money policy that pushed 30-year mortgage rates to a record low of 3.31% in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2015
But Pimco's ability to enrich its returns by following the Fed does illustrate how the Fed's easy-money policy over the past five years has produced outsized winners.
From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan pursued an easy-money policy that encouraged banks to lend as much as possible.
From Time • Feb. 5, 2013
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