English Explanatory Dictionary

doom loop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A death spiral or adverse feedback loop.
  2. A feedback loop that can occur when banks hold government bonds and governments with weak public finances bail out such banks.

Word forms

doom loop doom loops

Etymology

In the finance sense described by Andrew Haldane and Piergiorgio Alessandri in 2009.

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