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The Recession Paradox | Alfonso Peccatiello

Inflection Point

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Fiscal Deficits: How to Avoid Them

Banks are buying the bonds, treasury bonds back from a pension fund. Pension funds have bank deposits, which as you say, you can't go to the corner store and buy coffee with even those bank deposits if you're a pension Fund. Bank reserves are another channel to which banks can rebalance their portfolio. The fact that Europe run austerity programs between 2012 and 2020 basically explains most of the underperformance on GDP and inflation that Europe had against the US.

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