名人教你讲英文：量化宽松

名人教英文：量化宽松

美国联邦储备局为了刺激经济复苏，推出第二轮“量化宽松”货币政策，购买6000亿美元美国长期国债。

量化宽松，英文quantitative easing，是什么回事？以下是一则标准的解说："quantitative easing" is when governments create money out of thin air, which is typically what happens when they realise there are no more interest rates left to cut.

词组out of thin air字面解法是“来自空气”，create money out of thin air即凭空创造钱财。钱财怎么可以像变魔术般无中生有呢？英文《维基百科》解释说：a central bank implements quantitative easing by first crediting its own account with money it creates ex nihilo ("out of nothing"). it then purchases financial assets, including government bonds, agency debt, mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds, from banks and other financial institutions... the purchases... give banks the excess reserves required for them to create new money...