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by trod1234 311 days ago
They are doing more than hope.

The Central bankers only see credits, and liabilities. They've done all they can on the credit side with money-printing over the past decade and a half, so for the past several years policy has been based in lowering life expectancy.

The broader liabilities associated with an individual disappear when those people die. Its callous to think this way, but this is how they think, and they do so and act indirectly because the average Joe won't notice, gradually nice and slow, just like a frog boiling.