{"id":6906,"date":"2013-03-08T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6906"},"modified":"2013-03-08T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:47:33","slug":"quantitative-easing-does-not-address-the-fundamental-problems-underpinning-struggling-western-economies-europp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/quantitative-easing-does-not-address-the-fundamental-problems-underpinning-struggling-western-economies-europp\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative easing does not address the fundamental problems underpinning struggling western economies. &#124; EUROPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Doukas questions the benefits of quantitative easing:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\">\n<p>&#8230;excessive money supply fails to increase real economic activity because it raises the labour cost while it lowers the cost of capital. Depressing yields at home, as a result of quantitative easing, in an open economy setting, leads yield-seeking investors into higher-risk investments such as emerging markets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/europpblog\/2013\/03\/04\/quantitative-easing-problems\/'>Quantitative easing does not address the fundamental problems underpinning struggling western economies. | EUROPP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Doukas questions the benefits of quantitative easing: &#8230;excessive money supply fails to increase real economic activity because it raises the labour cost while it lowers the cost of capital. Depressing yields at home, as a result of quantitative easing, in an open economy setting, leads yield-seeking investors into higher-risk investments such as emerging markets. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/quantitative-easing-does-not-address-the-fundamental-problems-underpinning-struggling-western-economies-europp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quantitative easing does not address the fundamental problems underpinning struggling western economies. &#124; EUROPP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[589,2048,2831],"class_list":["post-6906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fed-banks-interest-rates","tag-capital-outflows","tag-labor-costs","tag-quantitative-easing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quantitative easing does not address the fundamental problems underpinning struggling western economies. &#124; EUROPP - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quantitative easing does not address the fundamental problems underpinning struggling western economies. &#124; EUROPP - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Doukas questions the benefits of quantitative easing: &#8230;excessive money supply fails to increase real economic activity because it raises the labour cost while it lowers the cost of capital. 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