Οικονομικά για Αρχάριους

Ο Greg Ip, συγγραφέας του εξαιρετικού βιβλίου The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World, δίνει εδώ ωραίες και απλές απαντήσεις σε μια σειρά απο επίκαιρα ερωτήματα:

• Does the Fed print money? If so, how?
• Is there any difference between QE and the Fed’s normal open market operations, beyond the duration of the assets being bought?
• Is the Fed trying to decrease medium-term interest rates and increase medium-term inflation expectations at the same time? Is that possible?
• What is a currency war? How would we know if the U.S. were engaging in one?
• What’s the difference between the Fed’s QE and the BoJ’s unsterilized fx intervention?