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Explainers
- Are financial crises like fires?
- Banks, borrowing and saving
- Can you stop a bank from going bust?
- Climate change: what are the risks to financial stability?
- Financial market infrastructures – what happens when you pay?
- How do card payments work?
- How do higher interest rates help to lower inflation?
- How do we know how much money to print?
- How does the housing market affect the economy?
- How fast can the economy grow?
- How has growth changed over time?
- How has money changed over time?
- How have prices changed over time?
- How is money created?
- How is the Bank of England independent of the Government?
- How is the Bank of England responding to climate change?
- How much do we spend at Christmas?
- How much gold is kept in the Bank of England?
- How much is a banknote worth?
- How will driverless cars affect the economy?
- Inflation and interest rates
- Is my money safe from cyber-attacks?
- Is the global financial system any safer than before?
- Learn about the economy
- Lions, mulberries and oak leaves: plants and animals at the Bank of England
- Money, payments and spending
- The Bank of England in literature
- The Bank of England’s garden and graveyard
- What are cryptoassets (cryptocurrencies)?
- What are financial markets and why are they important?
- What are interest rates?
- What are negative interest rates, and how would they affect me?
- What are stablecoins and how do they work?
- What do banks do?
- What do I need to know about debt?
- What does insurance cover?
- What does the Bank of England do?
- What happened to Silicon Valley Bank UK?
- What have we been doing to support the economy during the Covid crisis?
- What is CBDC?
- What is capital?
- What is deflation?
- What is financial stability?
- What is GDP?
- What is inflation?
- What is Islamic finance?
- What is legal tender?
- What is money?
- What is the digital pound?
- What is the economy?
- What is the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)?
- What risks do banks take?
- What’s the Bank of England’s role in the housing market?
- Who pays for the Bank of England
- Who is the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street?
- Who owns the Bank of England?
- Who sets exchange rates?
- Why are football players paid so much?
- Why are interest rates high and when might they fall?
- Why are new banknotes made of polymer?
- Why are retail banks being ‘ring-fenced’ and how will this affect me?
- Why do we regulate banks?
- Why does economic growth matter?
- Why does money depend on trust?
- Why is competition important in banking?
- Why is your mortgage rate higher than Bank Rate?
- Will a robot takeover my job?
- Will cash die out?
- When will we get back to low inflation?
- Will there be another financial crisis?
This page was last updated 31 January 2023