Monetary Indicators Monitor (Feb.)

This week marks the one year anniversary of the launch of the Bank of England’s quantitative easing (QE) programme of asset purchases. As Mervyn King has pointed out, without QE, the UK would probably have experienced a sharp monetary contraction. But equally, the latest data suggest that QE has failed to push up the broad money supply significantly.

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