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

<p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>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&nbsp;where he mostly traded futures and options on future and present UK interest rates.</p> <p>We cover the following in our conversation:</p> <ul> <li>An overview of the global economy: rising inflation, interest rates, slowing economic growth</li> <li>Why are the central banks slow to raise interest rates?</li> <li>How does money printing or quantitative easing (QE) affect global currency &amp; its value?</li> <li>Buying assets to hedge inflation including bitcoin</li> <li>Can central banks ever stop printing money?</li> <li>What affect does an aging population, technology, indebtnesses have on the economy over the long-term?</li> <li>What's in store for 2022/this decade?</li> </ul> <p><br></p>