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Is there any point doing more QE?

With the economic recovery flagging, attention is turning to what further support policymakers can provide. While there are question marks over whether further central bank asset purchases would actually do any good, we think that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has little choice but to persevere with its quantitative easing (QE) programme – albeit in perhaps a slightly different form.

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