#47: Money printing, rising inflation and what this means for your money with Shaun Richards

Shaun Richards is an independent economist who specialises in inflation measurement and monetary economics. This follows a career in the City of London where he specialised in derivatives (mainly options) on interest-rates and bonds.  Shaun has also worked in Tokyo. He is a Bank of England watcher which covers the issues of monetary policy and money printing or quantitative easing (QE). Shaun also traded as a local on the London International Financial Futures Exchange where he mostly traded futures and options on future and present UK interest rates. We cover the following in our conversation: An overview of the global economy: rising inflation, interest rates, slowing economic growth Why are the central banks slow to raise interest rates? How does money printing or quantitative easing (QE) affect global currency & its value? Buying assets to hedge inflation including bitcoin Can central banks ever stop printing money? What affect does an aging population, technology, indebtnesses have on the economy over the long-term? What's in store for 2022/this decade?