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| Subject: The hard history of easy money Tue Mar 29, 2016 4:27 am | |
| We tend to think of the current era of central bank intervention as unprecedented. And it may be in terms of scale.
But the bond-buying program known as quantitative easing isn't new, there's a historical precedent that goes all the way back to 18th century France and the so-called "Mississippi Bubble", the bubble was a financial scheme that triggered a speculative frenzy and ended in collapse.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-hard-history-of-easy-money-20160319-gnmfy2.html#ixzz44HKdKCh7 |
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