The Latest Breaking News from Quantitative Easing

Farage steps up calls for Bank of England to halt bond sales

Reform UK leader presses governor Andrew Bailey over quantitative easing in meeting at Threadneedle Street

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2025

Farage presses Bank governor on cryptocurrency and quantitative easing

The meeting with Andrew Bailey was described as a positive engagement.

Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2025

What's The Bank Windfall Tax: UK Major Banks' Shares Tumble Following Calls to Tax Bank Profits

UK bank shares fell after IPPR proposed a 'QE reserves income levy' that could raise about £8bn a year by taxing windfalls from Bank of England reserves, reviving a Thatcher-era idea and sparking warnings from lenders about growth and competitiveness.

International Business Times UK · Aug 29, 2025

Labour says losses to Treasury bond fund costing £8,900 for every UK household

Figures show the Treasury fund, devised to capitalise on the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme, has eroded over the past three years.

The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2023

Bank of England’s quantitative easing scheme let ‘inflation take root’

UK economy became reliant on cheap money due to the Bank’s actions, warns former permanent secretary to the Treasury

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2023

Three ways the Bank of England could try and cut inflation without rising interest rates

The Bank of England has upped its base interest rate again today but are there any other ways it can tackle inflation? - The Mirror asked three financial experts to find out if there is anything else that could be done

Daily Mirror · Jun 22, 2023

Why central banks are too powerful and have created our inflation crisis – by the banking expert who pioneered quantitative easing

Fifty years ago, a war broke out in the Middle East which resulted in a global oil embargo and a dramatic spike in energy prices.

The Conversation · Mar 14, 2023

There’s a crunch coming for London tech, but here’s why that’s not all bad

Tech-wreck. Dotcom crash 2.0. Tech-apocalypse. Call it what you will, the end of the era of quantitative easing and artificially cheap money is causing a profound ripple effect across the global tech economy.

Evening Standard · Jan 11, 2023

Bank of England bonds rescue has two ugly implications: more inflation and an even weaker pound

With UK government bonds and sterling both falling hard in recent days, the Bank of England has been forced to step in. Only a few months after it started tightening monetary policy to fight inflation by raising benchmark interest rates and ending its programme to “create” money through quantitative easing…

The Conversation · Sep 30, 2022

There was a way to try ‘Singapore-on-Thames’ but not like this

Concern about the Truss-Kwarteng “dash for growth” mini-budget has morphed into the threat of a full-scale financial crisis, prompting the Bank of England to do more quantitative easing to ease panic in the market for government bonds.

Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2022