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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is to find that the second round of the Central Bank of QE proved less popular than the first picture: GETTY

The decision to embark on more quantitative easing - or money - printing will cause unnecessary inflation risk devaluing of the dollar, fail to reduce the unemployment, according to an open letter to the US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, to be published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times this week.

Signatories include a first American economist John Taylor, the former official of the administration of George w. Bush, Niall Ferguson, a historian financial UK and Professor at Harvard University and Cliff Asness hedge fund manager.

Relocation of the Federal Reserve has already encountered opposition abroad, including China and Brazil fear policy will lead to a strong acceleration of capital in their economies and leave the currencies painful.Mr. Bernanke and other Federal Reserve Committee members argue that the policy is necessary to counteract the threat of deflation fire and help recovery is proved disappointing.

Unemployment has sunk just below 10pc the United States and inflation excluding food and the energy is at its lowest since 2001.

However, the letter has rejected the idea that more EQ can help to reduce unemployment, whereas disagreements also inflation should alimenter.Au place that "we believe that enhancements made to the tax, spending and regulatory policy must take precedence in a program of national growth," according to the soberly worded letter.

The Central Bank American is not without its supporters as it faces a strategic challenge that many consider tougher than faces as the financial system is staggering in autumn 2008.Alan Blinder, a former vice Chairman of the Fed and now Professor at Princeton University, mark critics of the EQ as the "" equivalent of the Flat Earth Society. ""

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E.on said that the market is not conducive to new Kingsnorth plant adjustment technology. Photo: PA

Giant Kingsnorth plant energy in Kent is one of the two regimes screened in the competition for government funding worth potentially up to ￡ billion to install technology in its new coal-fired power station.

A consortium led by Iberdrola-owned Scottish Power is now the only candidate left in the competition.

E.on said Wednesday after delayed the construction of Kingsnorth last year, the market was still not conducive to the construction of the 1,600 MW and consequently, he withdrew.Mr. Paul Goldby, E.on UK Chief Executive, said: "it became clear that economic conditions are still not good for us to advance the project and, in short, we have no power on which build a demonstration of capture and storage of carbon."

Scottish Power said the consortium clings to the project and its engineering and design on the calendar.

A spokesman for the Department of energy and climate change said the Government was "naturally disappointed that E.on had decided of is [not] move forward" it added that it was not an agreement that Scottish Power would receive funding.

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