Financial Repression is Back

1 December 2016

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The use of monetary financing (quantitative easing) as part of a broader set of measures that directs lendable funds to a sovereign’s publicly traded debt, at attractive terms, is well understood by economists, and is termed financial repression. In this paper, we examine the behaviour of trend following strategies during financial repression, and we draw clear parallels between the financial repression seen in the post-war economic environment and that seen today.

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