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financial repression

financial repression noun: a set of government policies to reduce the real burden of government debt, such as capital controls or interest rate caps.

Noun

financial repression (plural financial repressions)

  1. 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”.2011 May 9, Gillian Tett, “Policymakers learn a new and alarming catchphrase”, in Financial Times
    • Two main features of the 1950s were inflation and financial repression. […] Financial repression was used in the 1950s to prevent people and companies from using their financial assets as they chose. Although there is no precise definition of financial repression, one aspect of it is the imposition...2014, William A. Allen, Monetary Policy and Financial Repression in Britain, 1951–59, Springer, →ISBN

Forms of financial repression

pluralfinancial repressions

Origin of financial repression

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

Questions about financial repression

What does financial repression mean?
Financial repression means a set of government policies to reduce the real burden of government debt, such as capital controls or interest rate caps.
What part of speech is financial repression?
Financial repression is a noun.
What is the plural of financial repression?
The plural of financial repression is financial repressions.

Words near financial repression in the dictionary

  1. financial management
  2. financial market
  3. financial markets
  4. financial numeral
  5. financial numerals
  6. financial repression
  7. financial repressions
  8. financial slave
  9. financial statement
  10. financial statements
  11. financial year

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