A LESSON learned after the 2008 financial crisis was that financial market shocks can turn into real economy shocks if they’re not nipped in the bud by policymakers.
That led to a decade of the public grudgingly accepting - but resenting - an environment of slow economic growth where central banks were seen as the first responders for any little disturbance in financial markets.
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