Piecing together a financial theory of stagnation

Thinkers at the BIS AGM offer views on how the financial system may be dragging down the real economy

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It is not hard to see why Hélène Rey was invited to give the latest Andrew Crockett Memorial Lecture at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this year. Besides establishing herself as a heavyweight economist in her own right, her ideas are very much in step with some of the leading thinkers at the Basel-based institution. “My view is that real rates are low because we have just lived through the largest boom-bust cycle since the Great Depression,” she told central bankers assembled for

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