The Great Debt Jubilee has quietly started

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Nordea with the note:

The “boundless” costs of the pandemic leave governments with no choice but to finance lockdowns with increasing public debts. As long as central banks hold a large part of the bond market, long bond yields can increase without huge repercussions.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.