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QE For the People with Frances Coppola, Part II: Helicopter Money?

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This week, we have a guest on the show – economics and finance writer Frances Coppola. She’s the author of a book, “Quantiative Easing for the People”, which argues that central banks and governments should work in concert to ensure that their response to financial crises really helps the entire economy, rather than just inflating ...

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This week, we have a guest on the show – economics and finance writer Frances Coppola. She’s the author of a book, “Quantiative Easing for the People”, which argues that central banks and governments should work in concert to ensure that their response to financial crises really helps the entire economy, rather than just inflating asset prices.



In the second part of our interview, we go into much more depth about the specific idea of quantiative easing for the people – essentially, what would happen if the central banks or government directly gave every individual in the country a few thousand pounds, rather than injecting this stimulus into the market indirectly by buying up assets. We also discuss specifically what the ideal response to the coronavirus crisis should be and the role that banks and governments have to play in our response.



Frances Coppola
I’m Frances Coppola, writer, singer and twitterer extraordinaire. I am politically non-aligned and economically neutral (I do not regard myself as “belonging” to any particular school of economics). I do not give investment advice and I have no investments.Coppola Comment is my main blog. I am also the author of the Singing is Easy blog, where I write about singing, teaching and muscial expression, and Still Life With Paradox, which contains personal reflections on life, faith and morality.

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