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Why not the bubonic plague or an asteroid collision? The possibilities, like fiction, are endless.

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Hi Bert, indeed. So odd that it makes you wonder about the motivation. Was it panic? Was it a 'toys out the pram' moment following the Trump victory? Was it not-so-subtle hint that financial repression is coming to finance all the required defence spending? Maybe other things.

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based on everything we have seen since the GFC, essentially every central bank is seeking ways to intervene more aggressively, they are simply more honest than most

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Not sure what they were thinking, but surely your suggestion is an obvious conclusion.

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