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by Lionga 1349 days ago
Its the prize from the central bank of Sweden for bailing out banks with tax money and giving them clear sign they can leverage and risk as much as they want, if anything goes bad tax payers will have to pay for it.
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You are right in spirit but, technically, the central bank does not use tax money.
QE could be seen as indirect taxation.
In fact it is