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Yes, that makes sense for those in the US, but the FED does not really factor into the thinking of, for instance, a German. The argument of "if you read the blo
by trutannus 5y ago
Yes, that makes sense for those in the US, but the FED does not really factor into the thinking of, for instance, a German. The argument of "if you read the blog you know what it means" somewhat falls flat when the link is posted on HN for people who don't already read the blog to see. Quantitative Easing isn't just an American thing, and plenty of Germans might know it as Quantitative Easing, but have never seen it called QE for various reasons (it's QL in German for sake of example).
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- jasode 5y ago>The argument of "if you read the blog you know what it means" somewhat falls flat when the link is posted on HN for people who don't already read the blog to see. I don't understand your complaint here. The author (Lyn Alden) is not the person who posted it here on HN. In any case, she's an American writing about USA policy where her audience already knows what "QE" is. Seems unreasonable that she should predict that a German on HN would be irritated by it.
- trutannus 5y agoYou're right, I wasn't making a point about the author, just how the comment I was replying to didn't make sense given the context. I might have replied to the wrong comment. There was one which was saying something to the effect of "you would know what it means if you can understand the article". My core point is you can know what Quantitative Easing is while still not immediately recognizing QE as its abbreviation. For example, I thought this was going to be about some sort of Qsomething Equity, since I've seen PE to mean Private Equity.