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Peter Warburton ...
  • Tom Traill
  • Yvan Berthoux
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Market Focus February 2020

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Central bankers have come to resemble snake oil salesmen and women, fervently promoting their latest potions and ointments to a sceptical public. While offers of cheap wholesale credit will almost always find ready takers on the fringes of the financial system, the business of pressing finance into the sweaty palms of the general public has attracted unwanted oversight and scrutiny. The retail response to last year’s easing campaign remains lacklustre outside a few EMs in Central Europe and Asia. In advanced economies, where the most adventurous monetary experiments have occurred, policy traction is poor and policy transmission is tenuous. The outlook is for consumer retrenchment in 2020; the DM economic recovery is a mirage.

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Tom Traill

Yvan Berthoux

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