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doom loop

noun

Etymology

In the finance sense described by Andrew Haldane and Piergiorgio Alessandri in 2009.

Definitions

  1. A death spiral or adverse feedback loop.

    • Online discourse about San Francisco's “doom loop”, a downward economic and social spiral that becomes irreversible, feels less like hyperbole by the day.
    • Some graduates described feeling caught in an A.I. “doom loop.”

  2. A feedback loop that can occur when banks hold government bonds and governments with weak…

    A feedback loop that can occur when banks hold government bonds and governments with weak public finances bail out such banks.

    • However, uncertainty over the scale of the selloff – and how long it would run – raised concerns about a “doom loop”, where asset sales depressed prices further, resulting in higher collateral calls, which then sparked further sales.

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Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA