Research Affiliates: What's Up? Quantitative Easing and Inflation

What's Up? Quantitative Easing and Inflation by Research Affiliates

In a recent piece from Research Affiliates, Chris Brightman, chief investment officer, provides "Central Banking 101," noting that just within the last several months the Fed has ceased its program of quantitative easing (QE) and may soon begin to raise interest rates, Japan has embarked on an even more aggressive program of QE and the European Central Bank (ECB) has just begun QE. In a related development, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) recently stopped pegging the Swiss franc to the euro. Many investors are asking, “What does all this monetary turmoil mean?”

It’s no wonder investors are perplexed. QE’s direct and indirect effects are complex, and the fact that...