How fast does broad money need to grow?

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has recently put great store in the broad money figures as a measure of the effectiveness of its quantitative easing (QE) policy. Its preferred measure of money is growing at an annualised rate of 3.7%. We think it needs to get to at least double this.

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