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Barclays Goes There – Central Bank Debt Forgiveness

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Mark Melin
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Central Bank Debt Forgiveness a serious possibility? One big Investment Bank asks that question.

Despite unprecedented monetary stimulus, inflation has remained subdued, Barclay’s Macro Economist Michael Gavin notes in an October 31 report. Is Milton Friedman’s annotated "term helicopter" money and the related concept of central bank debt forgiveness a viable alternative to raise the dead that is inflation and manage the unmanagable? Or does an economy doing "so so" at 5% unemployment and reasonably strong GDP growth need to engage in what include radical concepts such as central bank monetary debt forgiveness? We're not there yet, but Barclays gives the issue deep exploration nonetheless.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.