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financial repressions

financial repressions is the plural of financial repression.

Meaning of financial repression

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

Questions about financial repressions

What is financial repressions the plural of?
Financial repressions is the plural of financial repression.

Words near financial repressions in the dictionary

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

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