Waiting to see if Brown gets any credit for his fiscal policies which in fact are responsible for stopping the slide.
As in the US, monetary policy has been contractionary with lower rates hurting demand from savers and borrowers gaining
little or nothing, and lenders replenishing lost reserves.
And QE per se does nothing apart from altering the term structure of rates and modestly reducing bank earnings.
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