| Table of Contents: | | | | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS : International, Japan, United Kingdom, United States | | | | TOPICS : economy, banking, exchange rate, finance, fiscal, growth, monetary, policy | | | | SIGNIFICANCE : Major central banks began quantitative easing in earnest in the first quarter of 2009. Such actions have wide-ranging implications for the economy, from defending against deflation and risking inflation to endangering the exchange rat |
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