«Finally, in circumstances where a major central bank is continuing to expand its balance sheet or maintaining a large balance
sheet over a sustained period, this policy would likely exert downward pressure on term premiums around the globe, especially in those foreign economies whose bonds were perceived as close substitutes.
``... the most profound contemporary changes to the ice
sheets and their contribution to sea level rise can be attributed to ocean thermal forcing that is
sustained over decades and may already have triggered a
period of unstable glacier retreat.»