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Rich-world central banks need to shrink their bond holdings, sure, but they must do it cautiously

Rich-world central banks need to shrink their bond holdings, sure, but they must do it cautiously

Rich-world central banks need to shrink their bond holdings, sure, but they must do it cautiously



The US Fed and Bank of England are planning to reverse their asset pile-ups that came with crisis-time quantitative easing. They must not go overboard. That policy has its critics, but it did serve a useful purpose—and disorderly reversals could be dangerous.