EU Daily | ECB sees ‘turning point’ in lending conditions


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Yes, central banks have finally managed to restore a degree of ‘market functioning’ after full year or more of ‘extraordinary measures’ which mainly served to demonstrate a lack of understanding of basic monetary operations.

Note that only after automatic stabilizers began to reverse the slide at year end did the lending environment begin to recover as well.

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