What is Helicopter Money and Quantitative Easing

Helicopter Money and Quantitative Easing (QE) are the two new phrases that are being repeatedly used in political and economic communities.

As we are aware, the entire world is battling the Covid-19 pandemic now. And taking measures to prevent the spread. One of those measures is the lockdown because of which a great deal of economic activity has been shut down in many parts of the world.

The world countries have two major issues that are intertwined with each other, one is the containment of the Covid-19 disease and revival of the economic activity. They have to be balanced against each other without which people are going to suffer immensely either by the disease or by poverty.

Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Swiss National Bank also employed this technique, but it was unsure of the role played by Quantitative Easing in rallying the economy.

The European Central Bank Quantitative Easing program in the 2015-2018 period garnered mixed results.

In March 2020, the US Federal Reserve announced that $ 700 billion as a Quantitative Easing program to strengthen the economy that was debilitated due to the global pandemic COVID-19.