It is unclear what kind of economic impact QE2 will have domestically
Sir Andrew Large, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, says there is some uncertainty about whether the US Federal Reserve’s second round of quantitative easing since the global financial crisis (dubbed QE2) will succeed in bolstering economic growth, as well as combating deflation and high levels of unemployment in the US.
Return to a gold standard?
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