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How to waste £445 billion? – The Failure of Quantitative Easing

In the years following the financial crisis, the UK wasted £445bn on a failed scheme to stimulate the economy and end the recession. This was one of the biggest missed opportunities in history. Here’s how it happened and what would happen if the Bank of England had taken just a small fraction of the money they’d created, and put it into the real economy instead…

(Note: It was increased from £375 billion since the video was made to £445 billion.)

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I’ve just watched this video which explains why the government was cancelling school rebuilding programs and flood defence programs because they’d ‘run out of money’, even though the Bank of England was creating £375bn to pump up the financial markets. I think you’ll find it shocking: http://bit.ly/videoQE

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