Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

financial repression

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables: fi-nan-cial re-pres-sion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of government policies to reduce the real burden of government debt, such as capital controls or interest rate caps.

Example Sentences

"Ms Reinhart and Ms Sbrancia argue the world has forgotten that the widespread system of financial repression “played an instrumental role in reducing or ‘liquidating’ the massive stocks of debt accumulated during World War II”."
"Two main features of the 1950s were inflation and financial repression. […] Financial repression was used in the 1950s to prevent people and companies from using their financial assets as they chose. Although there is no precise definition of financial repression, one aspect of it is the imposition of restraints on financial institutions which go beyond those that are required to ensure that they are prudently managed."

Etymology

Introduced in 1973 by Stanford economists Edward S. Shaw and Ronald I. McKinnon.

Inflected Forms

financial repressions (plural)

Questions

What does financial repression mean?: A set of government policies to reduce the real burden of government debt, such as capital controls or interest rate caps.
Where does financial repression come from?: Introduced in 1973 by Stanford economists Edward S. Shaw and Ronald I. McKinnon.

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