A number of commentators have recently drawn attention to a rapid rise in lending by the People’s Bank to domestic banks and suggested that this represents a form of stealth credit expansion or, alternatively, “backdoor QE”. In fact, it signals not a turn towards unconventional policy, as the “QE” label might suggest, but towards central banking orthodoxy.
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