The announcement included new purchases of corporate bonds, opening the way for future purchases
of private sector assets, where the potential is very large [1].
Many central banks, especially during the most acute phases of the crisis, also employed policies known as «credit easing,» which involves purchases of
private sector assets in certain credit markets that are important to the functioning of the financial system but are temporarily impaired.
Most of the assets purchased have been UK government securities (gilts), but the Bank has also purchased small quantities of high -
quality private sector assets in order to support the flow of corporate credit.
Now suppose the Fed decides to adopt an inflation target of 5 % instead, which it achieves by buying up
private sector assets such as equities1 while still holding the Fed Funds rate at 0 %.
The limit on purchases
of private sector assets was reduced from a maximum of # 50 billion in 2010/11, following an exchange of letters between the Governor and the Chancellor on 29 November 2011.
If you account for all of
those private sector assets (among others), net private sector debt is actually quite low and on par with the 70s.
Indeed, the total value of
the private sector assets abroad (113 per cent of GDP) exceeds their gross external debt (97 per cent).
The Company is authorised to purchase up to # 10 billion of
private sector assets.
All of our intellectual assets, academic assets, certainly the public assets that Senator Hoeven talked about, and most importantly,
the private sector assets and stakeholders in our state, are 100 percent behind this innovation and this opportunity.