Provided that they follow the blue-print set out by the US Fed, the world’s major central banks should be able to scale back their balance sheets over the coming years without huge adverse economic consequences. The key is for them to do so slowly, predictably and only partially. If they follow those principles, even the impact on government bond yields should be fairly modest.
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