Claims that large-scale foreign currency purchases have caused the Brazilian Central Bank to unwittingly engage in a form of quantitative easing are wide of the mark. But it does seem that during 2010 and 2011 monetary policy was kept too loose in the face of rapid capital inflows, which in turn helped to sow the seeds of the current credit bubble.
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