A KEY TENET of economic theory is that if the supply of a good doubles, then the price buyers are willing to pay is likely to decline dramatically – all things being equal. In the case of government bond markets, huge additional supply will lead invariably to higher yields – at least hypothetically. And yet two years into the crisis, and back in the real world, yields are lower because not all things remained equal.
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