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The research team used both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Julian Emanuel, chief equity and quantitative strategist at Evercore ISI, thinks it might, because unlike the start of the previous two earnings seasons, the market is entering this one with significantly improved sentiment.

Along with the U.S. fiscal deterioration, the firm noted that it’s hardly a coincidence that gold has increased fourfold since 2008-09, when the Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke instituted quantitative easing.

It comes two weeks after Nigel Farage met Mr Bailey to argue for the end of BoE bond sales, known as quantitative tightening, claiming it is costing taxpayers billions and driving up debt.

It is within the Fed’s tool kit, for example, to buy mortgage bonds, one variety of a maneuver known as “quantitative easing.”