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financial repression

noun

Etymology

Introduced in 1973 by Stanford economists Edward S. Shaw and Ronald I. McKinnon.

Definitions

  1. A set of government policies to reduce the real burden of government debt, such as…

    A set of government policies to reduce the real burden of government debt, such as capital controls or interest rate caps.

    • Ms Reinhart and Ms Sbrancia argue the world has forgotten that the widespread system of financial repression “played an instrumental role in reducing or ‘liquidating’ the massive stocks of debt accumulated during World War II”.

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