QE was in fact inspired by the BOE which led the way.

Meanwhile I see that the unelected faceless bureaucrats in Brussels have abolished mobile roaming surcharges throughout the EU. How dare they impose that on our British companies... Monstrous...

Yeah, if only our over-educated pampered students could be free-thinking Daily Express readers working in McDonalds, grateful for their minimum wage because they live in the 'real' world, without time or energy to grumble about the rat race (except to blame Europe and migrants for low wages and crime of course). All that spare time students have to discuss irrelevant nonsense like what kind of world they want to live in just means they get brainwashed by all-powerful communist academics with hypnotic powers who seduce our youth with their evil ideology. Less education and more low paid work please.

That's interesting, I thought the QE experiment began in Japan?

I've not heard that before..

Wikipedia's entry:

A policy termed 'quantitative easing' (量的金融緩和, ryōteki kin'yū kanwa) was first used by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to fight domestic deflation in the early 2000s.[18][34][35][36] The BOJ had maintained short-term interest rates at close to zero since 1999. A policy with the name 'quantitative easing' had first been proposed in 1994 by Richard Werner, then chief economist of Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd. in Tokyo, and was defined as an expansion of credit creation for GDP transactions, to be accomplished by central bank purchases of non-performing assets from banks, central bank credit expansion and a switch of government funding from bond issuance to borrowing via loan contracts from banks, arguing that policies such as interest rate reductions or reserve expansion would not work.[37][38][39]The Bank of Japan had for many years, and as late as February 2001, claimed that "quantitative easing ... is not effective" and rejected its use for monetary policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#History

jvi and others
Indeed there are some who grow older and wiser. Many wise old men are highly thought of and respected.
However not all, some develop attitudes that cannot be changed, irrespective of facts and situations. In fact some of my students have suggested that in the 21st century parts of
Psychology should be modified or even re-written
They identify the following types that often cannot agree anything-
1. Newsbots-News robots, these persons follow one agenda in one type of newspaper believing that what is in them is 100% correct.
2. Massbots-Mass media robots, these follow one type of agenda in mass media, often on top of one type of newspaper.
Both cease to have a brain as they are programmed according to what the read and watch. Often this disease affects persons of older age.
Finally the third type-
3. Socbots-Social media robots. They identify with one set of culture/view and can get very nasty if their views are not upheld on social media. Can affect people of all ages, but includes some of the older variety.
The programming is, repeat the same thing again and again until it is believed in. Strong and stable was an example, but one that did not work.
All of us should take care not to become a bot.