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   1. Carmen M. Reinhart and M. Belen Sbrancia —
   "The Liquidation of Government Debt"
   NBER Working Paper 16893 (March 2011); IMF Economic Review (2015)
   Also: BIS Working Papers No. 363 (companion paper)
   Used for: Annual liquidation effect 3-4% GDP for US and UK; "stealth tax"
   characterisation; "opaque to the highly politicised realm of fiscal measures";
   real rates negative ~50% of 1945-1980; definition of financial repression
   mechanisms; debt reduction via negative real rates.

   2. Julien Acalin and Laurence Ball —
   "Did the U.S. Really Grow Out of Its World War II Debt?"
   IMF Working Paper 2024/005 (January 2024)
   Used for: Counterfactual that debt/GDP would only have reached 74% in 1974
   without the rate peg and surprise inflation, not 23%; quantification of the
   three factors (primary surpluses, rate peg, surprise inflation) behind the
   actual debt reduction.

   3. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland — "The Fed's Yield-Curve-Control Policy"
   Economic Commentary 2016-15
   Used for: Morgenthau never publicly announced the programme; Fed bought $13B
   T-bills = 87% of all T-bills issued; $20B total = ~10% of all war debt issued;
   Treasury Secretary "seemed to prefer a quantitative target."

   4. Federal Reserve History — "The Treasury-Fed Accord"
   (federalreservehistory.org)
   Used for: April 1942 formal 0.375% peg commitment; 2.5% long-bond ceiling;
   Fed forced to give up balance sheet control; Eccles memoir "the fat was in
   the fire"; Truman false statement; Treasury-Fed Accord February 19, 1951.

   5. Federal Reserve History — "From WWII to the Treasury-Fed Accord"
   (federalreservehistory.org)
   Used for: The peg lasted six years after the war's end; Eccles and the Fed's
   position; inflation after price control removal summer 1946; Korean War
   escalation; CPI reaching 21% annualised by February 1951.

   6. FRASER / St. Louis Fed — "Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord of 1951 Timeline"
   Used for: April 1942 announcement structure; T-bill at 3/8%; long-bond ceiling
   at 2.5%; political chronology of the Fed-Treasury dispute.

   7. Wikipedia — National Debt of the United States (accessed April 2026)
   Used for: 1946 to 1974 debt/GDP ratio fall from 1.21 to 0.32; only 8 surpluses
   in the 28-year period; historical debt data.

   8. Cambridge Associates — "VantagePoint: Deconstructing US Debt Dynamics"
   (November 2024)
   Used for: 119% to 23% debt/GDP decline 1946-74; primary surplus averaging
   1.3% of GDP; financial repression to cap interest rates below growth;
   over 40 of 70 percentage point decline achieved by ensuring nominal growth
   stayed above interest rates.

   9. ArlingClose — "Is Financial Repression Coming Back?" (2025)
   Used for: T-bill peg at 0.375% while inflation hit 17.6% in 1946-47; IMF
   simulation showing debt/GDP would have been 51% higher without the peg;
   Trump "cut rates by 3 Points… One Trillion Dollars a year would be saved"
   (July 2025); Stephen Miran context.

   10. BlackRock GTAA — "Financial Repression Past and Future" (August 2025)
   Used for: "Active policy variable of growing relevance"; "monetary policy
   capture" under a "more pliable Fed Chair"; 20% of outstanding debt shifted
   to central bank balance sheets during COVID; Regulation Q reference.

   11. Morningstar — "What Is Financial Repression, and Why Should Bond Investors
   Fear It?" (October 2025, citing Algebris Investments)
   Used for: Europe, US, UK shifted ~20% of outstanding debt to central bank
   balance sheets during COVID pandemic.

   12. Financer.com — "What Is the U.S. Debt to GDP Ratio?" (accessed April 2026)
   Used for: US debt/GDP Q4 2025 approximately 122.3%; total national debt
   >$38.86 trillion; FY2025 interest payments ~$952 billion; first 9 weeks
   FY2026 interest = $104 billion = 15% of all federal spending;
   Moody's downgrade May 2025.

   13. Wikipedia — Financial Repression (accessed April 2026)
   Used for: "Stealth tax that rewards debtors and punishes savers — especially
   retirees"; term introduced by Shaw and McKinnon (1973); mechanisms list.

   14. Andersen Institute — "When Financial Regulation Becomes Financial Repression"
   (October 2025)
   Used for: SLR reform proposals; Moody's downgrade context; government zero
   risk weight for Treasuries under existing capital frameworks.

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2. Now it is time to own land.

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3. Ruined by the music

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4. Very many thanks for this detailed research. Extremely well documented.

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