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Published in TZ Latest News 16 November, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Japan’s Problems Will Not Be Solved By More QE, RBS Warns

One thing that became abundantly clear about QE long ago even if it hasn’t yet dawned on Mario Draghi or Haruhiko Kuroda, is that the practice of monetizing anything and everything that isn’t tied down (or that you can’t pry from the cold dead hand of an institutional investor), is subject to the law of diminishing returns. 

Put simply: eventually it just stops working in terms of stimulating aggregate demand and/or boosting growth and inflation expectations.

Unfortunately, the deleterious effects of QE are not subject to the same dynamic. 

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