Taper Tantrum
About Taper Tantrum
What is Taper Tantrum?
What is tapering?
"Tapering", a phrase belonging to the world of monetary policy, refers to a central bank's strategy of winding up a quantitative easing programme used to purchase government debt and other assets to keep borrowing costs low.
Tapering can be described as a plan to ‘wind down’ or ‘taper’ the Quantitative Easing (QE) or to gradually stop investing money into the economy and the banks. The central banking system does so by reducing bond purchases over an extended period to wean the economy slowly off the extra stimulus the purchases provide to avoid a nosediving.
What is Taper Tantrum?
In 2013,
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