We are living through an era that has been
called a financial repression, where the United States, Europe and Japan — all of these nations — have big budget deficits and large ratios of debt to GDP.
When interest is not making up for inflation, that is
called financial repression.»
Years of central bank policies of easy money have caused short - term interest rates to remain below inflation — aptly
called financial repression — which has penalized savers.
Years of central bank policies of easy money have caused short - term interest rates to remain below inflation — aptly
called financial repression — which has penalized savers.
Not exact matches
Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is
calling «
financial repression», but what you can just
call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).
James Montier
calls it the «age of
financial repression.»
Also,
financial repression has been
called a «stealth tax» that «rewards debtors and punishes savers — especially retirees» because their investments will no longer generate the expected return, which is income for retirees.
I've commented elsewhere on this, but I'll reproduce it here, and eventually turn it into a post: James Montier
calls it the «age of
financial repression.»
I've posted this below, but the answer is the same: James Montier
calls it the «age of
financial repression.»
On 29 November 2012 GMO published an article by James
called The 13th Labour of Hercules: Capital Preservation in the Age of
Financial Repression