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Maintaining high inflation will work to reduce debt loads BUT if they persist for long enough then interest rates will just adjust and make it more difficult to reduce debt after the initial break from expectations.

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With initial break from expectations do you mean that after some years the newly added debts, with their higher interest rates due to higher inflation expetations, at some point counterweigth the inflating-away?

If this at some point doesn't work out anymore than some action or change has to occur in politics, which is the longterm-debt-cycle discussion of Dalio right?

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Wow, fascinating, this explains so many developments around the world.

I guess a way to keep the system of government debt stabilizing the economy working would be a higher (but stable) level of inflation, to inflate away debt? Which would be in line with the current inflationary geopolitical trends?

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A very interesting piece - So essentially Governments facilitate a continuous rise in asset prices in order to serve themselves via serving the electorate. These bull markets in asset prices are torn down by systemic or geopolitical instabilities which create uncertainty, kryptonite for markets. One wonders to what extent the significant changes to the global banking and monetary system (including the shadow non-bank sector) increase the risks of instability due to a reduction in feedback from the banking sector to the central banks caused by the post GFC excess reserves regime and due to the shift from unsecured lending between banks (forcing banks to monitor each others health) to secured only lending between banks and non-banks. eg. LIBOR replaced by SOFR. I wonder if the Governmental sectors are now blind to risks in the banking and non-banking sectors. If this is true? It begs the question - Is the current perceived certainty in fact a mirage - Have the changes made to the monetary system since GFC made the system more or less likely to suffer a bout of sudden unanticipated instability? - China - CRE - A butterfly flapping its wings in Shenzen?

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What a phenomenal read, thank you

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