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The effects of Covid-19 could deepen secular stagnation

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Financial Times/Gavyn Davies/5-31-2020

cartoon of cowboy riding snail that reads economic recovery saying yee-haw“Since 2013, there have been brief periods of strong output growth in the large economies, suggesting that the risks of secular stagnation were abating. But these cyclical upswings proved temporary and the trend decline in global long-term interest rates towards zero was never ended.”

USAGOLD note:  Davies comes down on the side of stubborn disinflation as the post-pandemic paradigm.


Repost from 6-2-2020