One legacy of the pandemic is a huge expansion in central banks’ balance sheets. Fears that this will automatically boost inflation are overdone. So, too, are worries that central banks will provoke a destabilising rise in bond yields by selling their government bonds. So central banks don’t need to resort to writing off the government bonds they hold, something which is no magic bullet in any case.
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