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doom loops

doom loops is the plural of doom loop.

Meaning of doom loop

Noun

doom loop (plural doom loops)

  1. A death spiral or adverse feedback loop.
    • Britain is caught in a Covid doom loop, the pattern of which is becoming depressingly familiar. A new variant of the virus appears. It spreads rapidly. Restrictions are imposed to slow transmission rates and to take pressure off the NHS, but the economy suffers.2021 December 16, Larry Elliott, “Britain must find a new way out of its Covid doom loop”, in The Guardian
  2. A feedback loop that can occur when banks hold government bonds and governments with weak public finances bail out such banks.
    • This is the only remedy that would permit an escape from the “doom loop” described by Piergiorgio Alessandri and Andrew Haldane (2009), whereby, when financial institutions are seen as “too big to fail,” governments have no option but to bail them out with public money, no matter how many times...2011, William Leiss, The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector: And Other Black Holes of Risk, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, page 126

Questions about doom loops

What is doom loops the plural of?
Doom loops is the plural of doom loop.

Words near doom loops in the dictionary

  1. Doom clone
  2. Doom clones
  3. doom folk
  4. doom jobbing
  5. doom loop
  6. doom loops
  7. doom metal
  8. doom palm
  9. doom palms
  10. doom rock
  11. doom scrolling

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