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Martin Sandu: Welcome to the new age of financial repression
By Martin Sandbu
Financial Times, London
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Sunday, June 29, 2025
The trade war unleashed by Donald Trump may be just the precursor for much larger turmoil in the global economy. Whatever tariffs look like when the dust settles, deficits, surpluses and trade patterns will still be shaped by financial flows. It is only a matter of time before another economic policy war flares up -- indeed, it has already begun.
Welcome to the new age of financial repression.
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
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Financial repression refers to policies designed to steer capital to fund government priorities, rather than where it would flow in unregulated markets. In the postwar decades, Western countries used regulation, tax design, and prohibitions both to limit capital flows across borders and direct domestic flows into favoured uses, such as government bonds or housebuilding.
The United States then spearheaded the decades of financial deregulation and globalisation that led up to (and led to) the global financial crisis. The U.S. has now made abundantly clear that it rejects its traditional role in dismantling financial walls between countries and anchoring the global financial order.
Rumours of a "Mar-a-Lago accord," which would manage the dollar's value down while forcing global investors to discount and lock in lending to Washington, has produced shocked disbelief by other countries. But it is not just Mar-a-Lago: Several policy proposals have surfaced recently that can fairly be grouped together as measures of financial nationalism. ...
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