For the last few years, the mantra of central planners around the world has been "if at first you don't succeed... buy a bigger printing press." However, as Citi's Matt King notes, the following four charts show the monetary experiments are having less and less impact (on the real economy and the pretend stock-market-based one) as peak debt overhangs swamp anything but financial asset inflation.
The PBOC is losing it...
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The BoJ has lost it...
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And as far as The Fed's Legacy...
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Simply put - King concludes, Most of the economic benefit accrued during QE1..
Because there are structural things that you can't fix with liquidity...
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Source: Citi's Matt King
