How to Use quantitative easing in a Sentence

quantitative easing

noun
  • The government can influence long-term rates through policies such as quantitative easing, where the central bank buys long-term bonds.
    — Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In my view, the key risk of quantitative easing is the potential devaluation of the dollar.
    — Reco McCambry, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This could also encourage bond buying, which would lower long-term interest rates, just like quantitative easing.
    — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 14 July 2025
  • The central bank’s balance sheet has since ballooned as a result of another wave of quantitative easing, during the pandemic.
    — Christine Zhang, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • Incentivizing short-term bonds is similar to the Fed’s quantitative easing.
    — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
  • If anything, the Fed has been guilty of doing too much in recent years, and the consequences of its long deployment of quantitative easing are still becoming evident.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • While supporting the earlier efforts, Warsh voted against the second round of Fed bond buying, a program known as quantitative easing.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In quantitative easing, central banks purchase securities and increase the money supply.
    — Reco McCambry, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Two years later, the BOJ pioneered quantitative easing.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Nor did great merrymaking surround its 2001 move to pioneer quantitative easing.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Still, some see quantitative easing as an investor-friendly environment and turn their dollars into other forms of property whose value may benefit from the cash flooding into the economy.
    — Reco McCambry, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • By late 2008, the huge increase in reserves from Fed emergency lending and quantitative easing made that approach infeasible.
    — Bill English, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • A student can graduate with honors, having memorized the Phillips curve and explained the mechanics of quantitative easing, and still have no idea how compound interest works against a borrower.
    — Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Operation Twist, considered the third round of quantitative easing, raised concerns that the central bank was running out of conventional tools and rewriting the rules of monetary policy.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The Federal Reserve, which influences interest rates through a similar but larger-scale (and thus more effective) process known as quantitative easing, has been offloading some of its own mortgage bonds.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Since the global financial crisis, central banks have relied on multiple rounds of quantitative easing, government debt has climbed to record levels and inflation has surged well above the Federal Reserve's long-term target.
    — Dan Simms, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • The Fed's quantitative easing typically involves buying multiple types of securities, with larger amounts done in Treasuries in order to lower long-term Treasury rates.
    — Kevin Breuninger,john Melloy, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Or implement quantitative easing in perpetuity.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Part of those rescue endeavors included an unprecedented expansion of asset purchases that sent the Fed's balance sheet past $4 trillion, a program known as quantitative easing that Warsh argued then had gone too far.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 13 May 2026
  • After the Great Financial Crisis and again during the pandemic, the Fed bought millions of dollars of assets like Treasury bonds to support the economy, a policy known as quantitative easing.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • Part of what has led to this situation is the cheap money flowing into markets in recent years thanks to the ballooning national debt used to fuel stimulus as well as quantitative easing during the COVID pandemic.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Warsh, who served at the central bank from 2006 to 2011, was openly critical of quantitative easing during and after the financial crisis, a stance that has bolstered his standing with investors wary of inflation and fiscal dominance.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • First, in mid-December, the central bank reversed its long-standing policy of quantitative tightening, purchasing Treasuries to reduce the money supply, curb demand, and hence dampen the upward trend in consumer prices, and returned to quantitative easing.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Markets have adopted terms for the balance sheet operations – quantitative easing, or QE, for expansion and quantitative tightening, or QT, for reduction – but the Fed has never set out clear guidance about when either will be used.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 22 May 2026
  • Since the global financial crisis, central banks have engaged in multiple rounds of quantitative easing, government debt has climbed sharply and inflation surged to multi-decade highs following the COVID-19 pandemic.
    — Dan Simms, USA Today, 26 June 2026

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