Today marks the last day of the Fed's financial asset purchase program known as QE2. What impact did QE2 have? What should we expect to happen now that it is ending? Traditionally, the Federal Reserve ...

In 1992 the QE2 ran aground on a shoal that should have been safely below her keel. This analysis explains under keel clearance, outdated chart data, and the physics of squat that made deep water ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Cohan, a Boston-based senior contributor, covers stocks. The Federal Reserve is wrapping up its $600 billion QE2 treasury ...

Thousands packed the shoreline from first light, their camera flashes lighting up Calshot, Hythe and Mayflower Park, to see the two Cunard giants sailing side-by-side as they arrived from New York.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Now for a trivia quiz. In 2004, the dowager liner of the ocean, Queen Elizabeth 2, was dethroned by her ingenue sister, Queen Mary 2, which took over ...

The QE2 is set to be sold as scrap to the Chinese for £20m. The move follows the failure of a after a last minute bid to bring it back to the famous cruise liner back to Britain as a five-star ...

There's probably no better person to assess the state of this economy than Richard Koo, the Nomura economist whose book The Holy Grail Of Macroeconomics is all about the unique nature of a post-crisis ...

With the end of June in sight, so too is the end of the latest round of focused quantitative easing from the U.S. Federal Reserve commonly called "QE 2." Assuming that the program ends as planned, the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE QE2 IN DUBAI — A long and elegant era ended with a bang Wednesday as the world’s last true ocean liner sailed into history, though not obscurity.

Claim: The ocean liner QE2 uses a gallon of fuel for every six inches she travels. Figures like those are difficult for many of us to appreciate in the abstract, so we often come up with shortcuts ...