A Speculative Story: Treasuries in Belgium, Russians in Ukraine, and Derecognized NFC Loans Changing Across Europe (but mainly Belgium)

By |2022-02-27T15:35:30-05:00February 27th, 2022|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Have European banks begun to lend in a way that will lead to actual inflation? For Europe’s central bankers, this is a huge question. For so many years despite almost constant QE, banks have consistently refused to do so. Even with supercharged asset purchases begun in 2020, there still hasn’t been any correlation between ECB activities and bank lending.This is [...]